The
V8 JavaScript Engine is an
open source JavaScript engine developed by The Chromium Project for the
Google Chrome web browser. It has since seen use in many other projects, such as
Couchbase ,
MongoDB and
Node.js that are used server side. , the head programmer is
Lars Bak. The first version of the V8 engine was released at the same time as the first version of Chrome, September 2, 2008.