History of Chrome team: Animorphic Smalltalk engine

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Wow: V8 is built by people who worked on the legendary Strongtalk VM. That's huge.

Edit: the linked-to comments by Dave Griswold, originator of Strongtalk, are worth reading. "The release of the V8 VM is the beginning of a whole new era for dynamic languages":

http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-general/browse_thr...

This is exciting. One interesting loop is that Strongtalk was heavily influenced by Self... as of course was Javascript.

http://www.strongtalk.org/history.html

From what I can tell V8 is JavaScript only... Although from that comment by Dave, it seems the implication is that it could act as a target for other languages?

To me this implies there is some kind of intermediate language that can be targeted, but I can't see that from the documentation available. Or will JavaScript be the intermediate?

Anyone know what the intent is?

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