---
title: "Apps Script’s new V8 runtime | Google Cloud Blog"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2020-03-23T20:42:15+00:00
canonical_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/03/apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime-google-cloud-blog/
markdown_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/03/apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime-google-cloud-blog.md
categories:
  - "Official News"
  - "V8"
tags:
  - "@GSuiteDevs"
featured_image: https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2020/03/old-and-new-JS.jpg
description: "This update to Apps Script lets users take advantage of modern JavaScript features and enhances new or existing scripts with less verbose, more standardized code. This post from Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin, better known in the community..."
---

# Apps Script’s new V8 runtime | Google Cloud Blog

![Apps Script’s new V8 runtime | Google Cloud Blog](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2020/03/old-and-new-JS.jpg)

> [https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/g-suite-developers/data-processing-just-got-easier-apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/g-suite-developers/data-processing-just-got-easier-apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime)
> This update to Apps Script lets users take advantage of modern JavaScript features and enhances new or existing scripts with less verbose, more standardized code.

This post from Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin, better known in the community as AGV, highlights some of the benefits of the new Google Apps Script V8 runtime including succinct syntax and data processing operations: `map()`, `filter()` and `reduce()`. As part this AGV also highlights some of the resources from Ben Collins and Amit Agarwal put together to support the community transition to V8. A nice feature of this post from AGV is side-by-side comparisons of old and new JavaScript syntax:

[![](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2020/03/old-and-new-JS-1.jpg)](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2020/03/old-and-new-JS.jpg)Image source: Google

Source: *[Apps Script’s new V8 runtime | Google Cloud Blog*](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/g-suite-developers/data-processing-just-got-easier-apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/03/apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime-google-cloud-blog/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/03/apps-scripts-new-v8-runtime-google-cloud-blog/)*