In the grand scheme of things, there is nothing impressive about V8 - it’s just a really good interpreter. Every technology we have today could be easily progra

In the grand scheme of things, there is nothing impressive about V8 - it’s just a really good interpreter. Every technology we have today could be easily programmed in pre-1996 languages, they haven’t unlocked anything not possible before. We even use the exact same tooling. That is the stagnation.