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Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Gaurav Seth (Lead Program Manager of Chakra & TypeScript) and Arunesh Chandra (Program Manager of ChakraCore) about the backstory of Node at Microsoft, their polite fork of Node to introduce the community to ChakraCore (the high-performance JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge), why Microsoft is so interested in Node, the future of Chakra and ChakraCore, VM neutrality, and more.

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    • Gaurav Seth – Twitter, GitHub
    • Arunesh Chandra – Twitter, GitHub
    • Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

    Show Notes:

    The Future of Node Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.

    • The Future of Node is in Microsoft’s Fork
    • Microsoft/ChakraCore
    • Diagnostic Tracing and Time Travel Debugging with Node-ChakraCore
    • Node.js API (N-API)

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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