What is V8?
V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It is used in Chrome and in Node.js, among others. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems that use x64, IA-32, or ARM processors. V8 can be embedded into any C++ application.
Latest posts and feature explainers
- The V8 Sandbox security
- Iterator helpers ECMAScript
- WebAssembly JSPI is going to origin trial WebAssembly
- Static Roots: Objects with Compile-Time Constant Addresses JavaScript
- Import attributes ECMAScript
- V8 is Faster and Safer than Ever! JavaScript WebAssembly security benchmarks
- Maglev - V8’s Fastest Optimizing JIT JavaScript
- A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly WebAssembly
- Control-flow Integrity in V8 security
- Speeding up V8 heap snapshots memory tools
More articles can be found in the blog archive and the features section.