Chakra, Microsoft's Open Source JavaScript Engine with Ed Maurer, Gaurav Seth, and Steve LuccoDescription:

Microsoft has been making some pretty awesome

moves in the world of open source recently.

At JSConf in early December, it was announced that

Chakra, Microsoft's JavaScript Engine

that powers the Microsoft Edge browser

(with better support for ES6 than babel or Chrome),

will be open sourced. Join us as we talk about

Chakra with some of the subject matter experts!

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Links, Picks, and Tips:Ed Maurer

• Tips: Check out TypeScript
• Picks: Julia Holter album - Have You in my Wilderness

Gaurav Seth

• Tips: We’re new to open source, but we’d love to hear your feedback (ChakraCore)!

Steve Lucco

• Tips: Use the web programming model for as much as we can
• Picks: Electron

Brian Lonsdorf

• Picks: Redux Saga, Simon Richardson’s Free Monad implementation, and Brian McKenna on fantasyland

Kyle Simpson

• Picks: v8 gets ES6!, Developer Fallacies by @heydonworks, and Ember-CLI-Mirage

Kent C. Dodds

• Links: Wallaby.js Sublime Plugin and What open source project should I contribute to?
• Tips: Get involved open source
• Picks: How to become a better hacker by Gleb Bahmutov

Lin Clark

• Links: Code Cartoons series on Relay
• Picks: React’s diff algorithm

Pam Selle

• Picks: Higgs JavaScript VM

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