Now running on Linux and MacOS, ChakraCore is an alternative to the V8 engine underlying Node.js. Microsoft said in an announcement this week that it has a preview ready of Node-ChakraCore on Linux linking ChakraCore to the popular Node.js server-side platform. The company also is featuring an experimental implementation of the ChakraCore runtime on x64 Linux and MacOS. ChakraCore is the open source core of the Windows-only Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft’s Edge browser and the Universal Windows Platform. Continue reading this story here.