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# JavaScript: V8 Engine

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 2 min read · 97 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

The letters 'JS' within a square JavaScript: V8 Engine is a single-threaded scripting language. This means it can only do 1 thing at a time. It has 1 call stack.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://garden.bradwoods.io/blueprints/js-engine/basic>

## Community discussion

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**@fuadpashayev** · 3 upvotes

> Woow! How great visualization!

**@umairhafeez** · 2 upvotes

> Beautifully visualized, thank you for sharing! I wish the font was little readable as the current one is really hard to read.

**@kkkkkkk3** · 0 upvotes

> It's easy to understand, so great! But i was confused by the composing at the first

**@smaili** · 0 upvotes

> Really good visualization.
> Great job 👏

**@chris1993** · 0 upvotes

> Great, this animation is very interesting, bright and easy to understand.

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