Chakra is just the JS implementation in Edge; it's the equivalent of JavaScriptCore in Safari, V8 in Chrome, or SpiderMonkey in Firefox.
The layout engine bits in Edge are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML
The layout engine bits in Edge are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML
WebKit is technically only used by Safari. Chrome uses a WebKit fork called Blink, and MS Edge uses its own engine called Chakra.
I assume the above commenter was expressing relief that someone besides Google is making a fast, modern web browser these days.