[antjanus]

OS X. I don't use it but I think it'd have great value. I often hear engineers talk about how they don't want to work with IE because they have to boot up a VM to use it. So...they don't even test it, they know nothing about it except for how IE used to be 10 years ago when they still used Windows machines.

That'd be the coolest thing since it'd encourage developers that shy away from MS technology to dive into it.

[pmontra]

They're open sourcing the JavaScript engine, not the browser. A port to OSX would mean you can run there server side programs before deploying them to Windows servers. I believe there are more Linux servers out there. Still a port to OSX would be useful because there are many developers with Macs that deploy to Linux.

[antjanus]

I don't see how it'd help deploying server-side programs. Maybe that makes sense with IoT. And as a Node alternative/enhancement.

BUT, once you have the JS engine over, I could see them porting over the rest. But anyways, you could still run headless browser (or just Chakra) and run tests against it.

[rhc2104]

Have you heard of www.browserstack.com ? Easy way to test different platforms without VMs.

[antjanus]

yeah but it's paid, needs internet access, and requires some sort of setup. Plus, most OS X devs would do this ONLY for IE. Which is a barrier of entry.

Downloading and installing IE browser on OSX is a much better solution. And this way, you have a browser that people can use casually as well. Since it has awesome ES6 support, that makes it even better for JS Devs.