Comment by andrewmcwatters
20 hours ago
Yeah, but no one is using v8 directly, even though technically you could if you wanted. Node.js is as much JavaScript as LuaJIT is Lua, or GCC compiles C.
20 hours ago
Yeah, but no one is using v8 directly, even though technically you could if you wanted. Node.js is as much JavaScript as LuaJIT is Lua, or GCC compiles C.
Fair, but I think the JavaScript ecosystem is unique in that the language is very separate from the thing that executes/compiles it. When you write Go, 99.9% of the time you're writing for the Go compiler.
When you write JavaScript (or TypeScript that gets transpiled), it's not as easy to assume the target is Node (V8). It could be Bun (JavaScriptCore), Deno, a browser, etc.