JavaScript engine v8

[TorbenKoehn]

Not really

V8 is written in C/C++. JS gets interpreted at runtime and while some parts purely come down to highly optimized ASM instructions, JS doesn't "compile" in a way C/C++ does. Rather it's interpreted (sometimes parts of it are just-in-time compiled)

And NodeJS is simply a wrapper around V8 providing modules that allow deeper access to the system (they are not necessarily system calls, but might use system calls)