Today, we are happy to announce a new preview release of Node-ChakraCore, based on 8, available for you to try on Windows, macOS, and We started our Node-ChakraCore journey with a focus on extending the reach of to a new… Read more
Registration is now open for Microsoft Edge Web Summit Join the Microsoft Edge team in Seattle on September 13th for a jam-packed day of energetic technical sessions looking at what’s new, and what’s next, for the web on Space is limited… Read more
JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real In this… Read more
The Chakra team was delighted to host the third VM Summit recently here at These meetings bring together JavaScript VM vendors, Node collaborators, and CTC members including participants from Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, nearForm, and This group is currently focused… Read more
Back when was launched, the device landscape was simpler, and using a single JavaScript VM helped provide the focus to grow Today, there is a proliferation in the variety of device types, each with differing resource In this device context,… Read more
Following the introduction of , we have been working with other browser vendors including Mozilla, Google, Apple, along with the rest of the WebAssembly community group, to push the performance boundary of the web with WebAssembly is a new, portable,… Read more
Earlier this week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update began rolling out to over 350 million Windows 10 With this release, we're proud to introduce EdgeHTML 14, the third and most significant update to the Microsoft Edge web platform since our… Read more
In January, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the core of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows We expressed our ambition to bring our best-in-class, but Windows-only, JavaScript engine to other platforms, with Linux as the prioritized Today… Read more
Since we first started work on the Chakra JavaScript engine, it has been our mission and priority to make JavaScript faster for the real-world web, and to continuously improve the experience of browsing in Microsoft Edge (and previously Internet Explorer).… Read more
Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows… Read more
