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Link is to "chakra core", part of the JavaScript engine that powers edge, apparently.

I thought edge was reskinned Chrome, why don't they use V8?

They do, taken from the above github page:

"As you may have heard Microsoft Edge no longer uses Chakra. Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for Chakracore 1.11 until 9th March 2021 but do not intend to support it after that."

FWIW the headline on the page is still present tense and I want expecting the strap longer of a project to be wrong about what the project is.

The old Edge had its own rendering and JS engine.

The new Edge uses Blink for both.

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