Microsoft opens up Node.js to other JavaScript engines

Moving ahead with plans for its ChakraCore JavaScript engine, Microsoft is developing a standard interface to enable different virtual machines to access the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform. Now running on Linux and MacOS, ChakraCore is an alternative to the V8 engine underlying Node.js.
Microsoft said this week that it has a preview ready of Node-ChakraCore on Linux, which links ChakraCore to the popular Node.js server-side platform. The company also is featuring an experimental implem