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by userbinator 922 days ago
No, Edge started as an attempt to make a better browser engine. Then MS gave up and it became another Chrome-clone before acquiring its own brand of user-hostility.
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The additional features they added were quite nice though...until it got all the extra telemetry and bloat was added.
The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore