An ambitious road map for Node.js was laid out Friday, highlighted by performance boosts, virtual machine agnosticism, and module safety.
Node.js 7, which moves to a beta release next week, will feature the V8 5.4 JavaScript engine, which is focused on performance improvements linked to memory, said Mikeal Rogers, community manager of the Node.js Foundation, on Friday.
"It will also support 98 percent of ECMAScript 6 language features -- up from 56 percent in Node.js v5," Rogers said. ECMAScript is the standard underlying JavaScript. The Node.js core team also plans more improvements for ES6 and ES7, with future releases to include Promises, async await, and additional ES6 modules.
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