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 ...

It is documented at windowjs.org. Window.js is distributed as a single binary that can be downloaded for Windows and macOS. It can also be built from the sources for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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