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

Microsoft intends to release the self-contained parts of its Chakra Javascript engine, used in the Edge web browser that debuted in Windows 10, as open source in January next year.

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Microsoft does JavaScript one better with a new programming language, TypeScript, that enables JavaScript developers to build application-scale apps. The TypeScript project was led by Anders ...

Microsoft has officially open-sourced key components of its Chakra JavaScript engine under the name ChakraCore and published it on GitHub.

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Microsoft is looking to improve Web performance in Windows 10 by bringing in Mozilla’s asm.js JavaScript subset, for inclusion in Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine.

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Microsoft is adding JavaScript performance improvements to the Chakra engine behind the Edge web browser, which will be available for all Windows 10 users as part of the upcoming Anniversary ...

When AJAX, otherwise known as Asynchronous Javascript and XML, first became all the rage (mostly thanks to Google), Microsoft didn't waste anytime reminding AJAX-watchers that it pioneered the ...

Microsoft revealed on Monday its TypeScript, an open-source programming language with the goal of making it easier to use JavaScript to build large-scale applications.

Microsoft first released this library in 2011 so developers could build Windows applications both for Windows Phone and the Windows 8 Modern interfaces using JavaScript, along with HTML, CSS and ...