Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Ormandy argues that once the Avast antivirus would download and run the malicious JavaScript code inside its own custom engine, malicious operations could be executed on the user's computer, with ...

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

The company made the announcement today at the JSConf US Last Call in Amelia Island, Fla. Microsoft said it will open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore, which will include all the ...

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Microsoft will release the core components of its 'Chakra' JavaScript engine as open source in January 2016. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Dec. 5, 2015 at 6:40 a.m. PT.

Microsoft on Saturday said that it plans to donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the open source community. Specifically, the company said it will separate the core components ...

The security flaw, which was first discovered by Google's Tavis Ormandy, was found in the company's JavaScript engine. This internal component of Avast antivirus allows for JavaScript code to be ...

The technology behind Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine will be handed over to the open source community, the company announced on Saturday. Specifically, the company said it will separate the ...