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Re:Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:35AM (#20874299)
Already part of Microsoft MakeCode learn to code ecosystem. Read this blog for more details: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/rocket-fast-em...
Re:Microsoft MakeCode on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:53PM (#16173243)
There is a toggle between blocks and javascript in MakeCode. You can write code in blocks and switch to javascript or vice versa. This dual modality hopefully helps students to make the jump from blocks to javascript on a long term.

Blocks editor is based on the fork of google blockly(https://developers.google.com/blockly/).

Re:Microsoft MakeCode on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:53PM (#16172852)
MakeCode works with Minecraft Windows 10 as well. Please see the setup instructions here: https://minecraft.makecode.com/setup
Re:In love with the BBC micro:bit on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:38PM (#14063325)
I am dev who builds Microsoft MakeCode (https://makecode.com) editor for micro:bit. Try out these fun projects on micro:bit and give us feedback 1. Rock-paper-scissors (https://pxt.microbit.org/projects/rock-paper-scissors) 2. Guitar: (https://pxt.microbit.org/projects/guitar) 3. Milk Monster: (https://pxt.microbit.org/projects/milky-monster)
Re:Micro:bit developer community on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:18PM (#12748201)
:-). Yes I do love it here. Thanks!
Re:Micro:bit developer community on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:29PM (#12745769)
We build editor for microbit (beta - https://pxt.microbit.org). Code is open source as well(https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt). Give us some feedback.
Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @06:55PM (#10898639)
Great question. Yes, we have a way to disable jit. See the merged pull request by our super cool dev here: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/pull/4. We have build configuration which produces daily builds without JIT as well: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/pull/42.
Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:47PM (#10897807)
Sincerely thank you. Yes, it was a lot of hard work, but we had fun. Looking forward to working with the community.

Disclaimer: I work for Chakra team.

Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:50PM (#10896518)
Sure I will follow up.
Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:27PM (#10896352)
You can follow webassembly standardization process here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec

Look at prototype pull request in ChakraCore by one of our awesome engineer: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/pull/63

Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:16PM (#10896267)
The first step is to get the runtime and interpreter running. Next step is to bring the jit up. Chakra is the hybrid engine where we have the interpreter, simple jit and full jit. The interpreter is the one which does all the profile data collection. Profile data is required to get the quality jit code.

Declaimer: I work for Chakra team.

Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:49PM (#10896074)
Road map here: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap

I work for Chakra team.

Re:Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source on Saturday December 05, 2015 @12:00PM (#10682447)
WebMIDI is not owned by Chakra. Please voice your opinion here

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev...

Re:Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source on Saturday December 05, 2015 @11:09AM (#10682252)
I work for Chakra team and it is going to under MIT license.