Microsoft made a substantial contribution to the recent corporate-driven move to create knowledge more freely accessible, as it open-sourced this weekend at the JSConf US Last Call convention in Florida, the ChakraCore.

The end result of all intensive development was a platform that turned out to be efficient, quick and can exploit the full power of the hardware.

Now, it’s broadly deployed as well as the multitude of its own uses include supporting programs in shops, server-side programs, cloud established game engines and services.

Well, as the language has evolved thus as the related platform. The Chakra platform has now outgrown its first use and is currently used in Windows 10 programs across various platforms — Be it the Xbox, high end Smartphones or the age old PC.

Microsoft is calling the variation of Chakra it’ll be adding as ChakraCore repositary next month to GitHub. The ChakraCore differs from the first Chakra platform — which ships with Windows 10 — in several regards.

Instead, alternate APIs is going to be developed and incorporated into the Open Source variant.

As for what Microsoft anticipates from this, well may this prove to be an enormous help to programmers all over the world looking to work together with the platform, but could also result in an advancement in the technology itself, with feedback and input signals from users. Additionally, don’t forget the very fact the move will enable more and more of Microsoft backed technology finally make its way into the international tech-ecosystem.