Node.js and Deno run on the V8 Javascript engine and provide the Node-API to access different features, such as filesystems, that don’t apply to web browsers.

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.

For its part, the V8 team has released version 5.4, a new branch of the engine. “V8 5.4 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint and startup speed,” the team said in a bulletin.

This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js and other native add-on modules written for V8,” Seth said.

Deno is based on Google's Chromium V8 JavaScript engine and written in programming language Rust as opposed to C++ for Node. Besides fixing problems with Node.js, Dahl also wanted Deno to cater ...

CVE-2021-30551 –- June 9, a type-confusion bug within V8 (also under active attack as a zero-day) CVE-2021-30563 – July 15, another type-confusion bug in V8.

The latest version of the JavaScript runtime Node.js is now available. Node.js 18 includes an update to the V8 JavaScript engine, global fetch enabled by default, and a core test runner module.

The Node.js team has recently released Node.js 21. This release introduces changes such as updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, stable fetch and WebStreams modules, an experimental flag for altering m ...