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Its UI runtime is Qt and its JS runtime is Node.js. No Chromium here :) it makes super-small, low-memory apps.



Yes, I suppose people could be understandably be confusing V8 with Chromium.

It's using the same JavaScript engine as Chromium, which is of course developed by Chromium and is part of it, but without the rest of Chromium, as Node.js always has.

It's a great example of synecdoche [1]. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche


V8 is tiny compared to the operating system known as chromium.

Anyway, it was just a misunderstanding based on poor writing on the web page.




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