Google announced overnight the release and open-sourcing of a trio of tools designed to help JavaScript developers.

Chakra is the engine used to execute JavaScript that was developed from scratch in 2008 and has the most compatibility with the ECMAScript 6 standard over other engines, including Google’s V8.

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

Microsoft announced plans to open-source the JavaScript engine behind its Edge Web browser.