V8 JavaScript Engine: Compiling with GN and Ninja

I’m a compiler enthusiast, who has been learning how the V8 JavaScript Engine works. Of course, the best way to learn something is to write about it, so that’s why I’m sharing my experiences here. I hope this might be interesting to others too.

This first blog post is an overview of how V8 is compiled. As you can see from the V8 source code repository, the V8 Engine is mostly…