Using Chakra for Scripting Applications Across Windows 10 (opens in new tab)

if it wasn't enough to have google pushing it's weight around to drive new JS and html specs, now microsoft resurrects from the grave with out-of-IE6-history pearls such as:

"Legacy JSRT APIs ... Edge JSRT APIs"

when IE11 rolls out, lots of devs (obviously not in san francisco bubble) will be churning out sites that require IE11 new APIs to work.

let's just hope they at least bring something useful to justify the shitstorm, like they did with XMLHttpRequest (which does not get even the uppercase consistency right)

I don't really get what the advantage of having the EventLoop running on a Threadpool instead of of a single thread is? At first it sounds like disadvantage because of more context switches.

It might be helpful if you really want to run a lot of Javascript EventLoops - but that's not the node.js programming model.

If you want to use the API the documentation is not particularly helpful on how to put all the pieces together (though it's not too hard to figure out with some guessing).

I found this sample program helpful: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/JavaScript-Runtime-Hosting-d...

I used the Active Scripting interfaces in a Windows product then discovered my mistake a year later when MS refused to release 64-bit versions of the .lib files. I won't make that mistake again, no thanks Microsoft.

Source/license? ATM just slightly interested, since v8 is pretty much state-of-the-art and can be used commercially + open source.

Wow. Small thread...lots of anger and distrust.

Node.js on Chakra sounds pretty cool.