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by badminton1 3377 days ago
Chakra is open source. The rest is not.

The IE/Edge layout engine has always been a source of infamous trickery. It would be good that they finally open source it.
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repples 3377 days ago
As Chakra is part of Edge, then Edge is not fully closed source.
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satysin 3377 days ago
Edge is closed source. You have no way of verifying the build of Chakra used is the same as the open source version. Well it might be possible to reproduce a build of Chakra to do a binary comparison but i am not aware of anyone doing it.
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repples 3377 days ago
There's nothing stopping you from compiling https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore and checking if Chakra.dll matches that which is distributed with Edge.
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satysin 3377 days ago
AFICT you cannot build a like-for-like chakra.dll from ChakraCore due to https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore#using-chakracore

The chakra.dll that comes as part of Windows/Edge includes the additional parts not included with ChakraCore (at least that is how it reads to me).

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