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