Here lies the problem. Just because a component of the v8 compiler is called an “interpreter” it doesn’t mean that JavaScript (via v8) is an interpreted language.

Which is the point I’m making. Back in the 80s and 90s scripting languages often had no compilation stage aside maybe building an AST and were pretty much 100% interpreted. Anything that ran from byte code was considered compiled (like BASIC vs Java, VB6). Interpreters often ran line by line too.

These days most scripting languages that were traditionally interpreted languages run more like Java except compiled JIT rather than AOT.

But it seems people have warped “interpreted” to mean JIT to compensate for the advancements in scripting runtimes. That is a bastardisation of the term in my opinion. But when you look through this thread you’ll see the same error repeated over and over.