V8 is not only a famous eight-cylinder engine you can find in Dodge Charger, Bentley Continental GT, or Boss Hoss motorcycles. In 2008 The Chromium Project developers released a new JavaScript and WebAssembly engine with the same name – V8, such a groovy reference to the engineering marvel. So one more Vee-eight engine was born.
One of the interesting properties of JavaScript and the reason why V8 being used for today is that it’s platform-independent.
Lars Bak, danish programmer, the tech lead of V8 project
V8 is not only a famous eight-cylinder engine you can find in Dodge Charger, Bentley Continental GT, or Boss Hoss motorcycles. In 2008 The Chromium Project developers released a new JavaScript and WebAssembly engine with the same name – V8, such a groovy reference to the engineering marvel. So one more Vee-eight engine was born.
One of the interesting properties of JavaScript and the reason why V8 being used for today is that it’s platform-independent.
Lars Bak, danish programmer, the tech lead of V8 project […]