Talk:V8 (JavaScript engine)

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Origin of name V8?

Anyone knows how it got its name "V8"? Is it V8 like in "car-engines"? Or V8 like in "version 8"? Or...? Would be nice to have it explained the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.251.192.97 (talk) 15:22, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to ask the same... 8 years later... S3rvus (talk) 22:20, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's the car engine. I'm adding that to the article now. -Pmffl (talk) 23:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rename

Today V8 is JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, so we need rename article's name from "V8 (JavaScript engine)". 194.127.167.119 (talk) 21:43, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. V8 is first-and-foremost a JS engine. Wasm is an optional secondary language to use, and it has to be invoked within JS anyways. There's no need to rename the article. -Pmffl (talk) 17:29, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]