V8 is Google’s engine for compiling our JavaScript. Firefox has it’s own engine called SpiderMonkey, it’s quite similar to V8 but there are differences. We will be discussing the V8 engine in this article. A couple of facts about the V8 engine: Written in C++ and used in Chrome and Node.js (and the newest release of Microsoft Edge) Implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262 The JavaScript Jour
