I was a compiler engineer, even was a committer to V8 itself via Qualcomm's codeaurora legal entity while a Qualcomm engineer, bringing up its backend code gene

I was a compiler engineer, even was a committer to V8 itself via Qualcomm's codeaurora legal entity while a Qualcomm engineer, bringing up its backend code generation support to new Snapdragon processors with SIMD extensions about 14 years ago, with a coworker double checking the work on hardware targets. That said, I hope you are right, and it's fun to watch, as time will tell.