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		skrebbel on Feb 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for Rea... Sure, it's not official, but it's pretty obvious I think: Edge is moving to Chromium. I'm sure Chakra will continue to be bundled with Windows somehow, eg in IE and whatnot, but if you look at Chakra's recent release history in GitHub, it's all security patches. And it makes sense, why would MS invest in a JS engine it's not planning to use?

warpech on Feb 13, 2020 [–]

Relevant discussion about ChakraCore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865

TLDR ChakraCore is entangled in Microsoft's platforms like UWP, so it must be maintained, but forward development beyond maintenance is uncertain.

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