007 jsAir - Chakra, Microsoft's Open Source JavaScript Engine with Ed Maurer, Gaurav Seth, and Steve Lucco
January 28, 2016 - Kent C. Dodds
Chakra, Microsoft's Open Source JavaScript Engine with Ed Maurer, Gaurav Seth, and Steve LuccoDescription:
Microsoft has been making some pretty awesome moves in the world of open source recently. At JSConf in early December, it was announced that Chakra, Microsoft's JavaScript Engine that powers the Microsoft Edge browser (with better support for ES6 than babel or Chrome), will be open sourced. Join us as we talk about Chakra with some of the subject matter experts!
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- Tips: Check out TypeScript
- Picks: Julia Holter album - Have You in my Wilderness
- Tips: We’re new to open source, but we’d love to hear your feedback (ChakraCore)!
- Tips: Use the web programming model for as much as we can
- Picks: Electron
- Picks: v8 gets ES6!, Developer Fallacies by @heydonworks, and Ember-CLI-Mirage
- Links: Wallaby.js Sublime Plugin and What open source project should I contribute to?
- Tips: Get involved open source
- Picks: How to become a better hacker by Gleb Bahmutov
- Links: Code Cartoons series on Relay
- Picks: React’s diff algorithm
- Picks: Higgs JavaScript VM