V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

Getting the Code

Checkoutdepot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directoryv8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in.git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Please follow the instructions mentioned atv8.dev/docs/contribute.