Microsoft, as promised, has published the source code of a multithreaded JavaScript-engine ChakraCore. Code posted on GitHub and is available under the license MIT. The code has a JIT-compiler for JavaScript-enabled platforms x86, x86_64, and ARM, the garbage collector, JavaScript Runtime interpreter and a parser that supports ECMAScript standard 2015 and extensions WebAssembly, Asm.js, Async and SIMD.js.
Note that this engine is used in the browser, Edge and other products of the company - from the Outlook.com e-mail service to Cortana. The free version has a universal API, and is not tied only to Microsoft products .
In the future, the Redmond company plans to promote its product as a cross-platform solution, the more that developers promise to add support for Linux in the near future. Related Products :
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