Google’s amazing V8 JavaScript/WASM engine is probably one of the most sophisticated open-source software libraries available today. It is used to power the computation in Google Chrome, NodeJS, and also CloudFlare Workers, which make it possible to run code for your website inside the CDN edges.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ropensci.org/blog/2020/11/12/installing-v8/