The State of Node Core

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Concrete roadmap: Node follows a twice-yearly major cadence with even-numbered releases becoming LTS and node 8 (carbon) slated to ship async/await async/await without a flag and WebAssembly, but V8’s Ignition+Turbofan compiler threatens large perf profile shifts so options include delaying node 8 or shipping a forward‑compatible V8. Core ships safer buffers and will zero-fill buffers by default (legacy allocUnsafe for speed, up to ~70% hit), tests exceed ~1,400 with ~90% coverage, and napi ABI stability lands as an experimental win for native modules.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:51LTS Schedule
3. 7:54Node.js Usage by Version
4. 10:20Node.js 8.0.0
5. 13:57Improved Language Support
6. 17:37Improved Documentation
7. 23:06Safer Buffers
8. 35:42Node on Chakra
9. 37:26Node.js API (N-API)
10. 45:54Improved Performance
11. 48:19Tracking V8
12. 53:29LTS Options

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