V8 (JavaScript engine)
V8 is a free and open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine developed by the Chromium Project for Chromium and Google Chrome web browsers. The project's creator is Lars Bak. The first version of the V8 engine was released at the same time as the first version of Chrome: 2 September 2008. It has also been used on the server side, for example in Couchbase, Deno and Node.js.
| Original author(s) | Lars Bak of Google |
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| Developer(s) | The Chromium Project |
| Initial release | 2 September 2008 |
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| Written in | C++ |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS, MIPS64 PowerPC, IBM ESA/390 |
| Type | JavaScript and WebAssembly engine |
| License | BSD |
| Website | v8 |
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