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…Here's someone trying to build steam parsing on Node and finding that it's too slow to be useful: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/31979 The solution is stream iterators. They are sync when they can be and async when they must be:…

comment by conartist6 · 2026-11-01 · in The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

Other certificate verifiers are doing the same: Node: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/66871 rustls/webpki: https://github.com/rustls/webpki/pull/546 Electron: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/55126 This is very serious and you…

comment by agwa · 2026-10-20 · in Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

node is doing the same: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/66871

comment by captn3m0 · 2026-10-20 · in Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

…seem to have just merged in support for Web Workers though, which I've been following for a while: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/43583 So I don't think they're opposed to standardising, but it's trickier when you have some past…

comment by domh · 2026-08-19 · in Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?

Node.js is virtually the only platform not supporting the Fetchable convention: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/63096 https://fetchable.org/

comment by franciscop · 2026-08-19 · in Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?

…compatible even in minor releases, and its compiler settings aren't portable for packages. [1]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/api/typescript.... [2]: https://www.assemblyscript.org/

comment by sheept · 2026-07-27 · in Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

…bug with an almost identical fix: https://github.com/spaceraccoon/vulnerability-spoiler-alert/... https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/53bcd114b10021c4a883b0... But now the interesting question, how does the code look like in Rust?…

comment by lyu07282 · 2026-07-13 · in Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

…that is distributed non-compiled (without dist/) and is supposed to run in both browser and Node. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/46006 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16577

comment by ivanjermakov · 2026-07-02 · in Vite+ Beta

node randomly broke production for us last week https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/63989 not sure it can be considered "stable and won't break things like this between minor releases"

comment by Recursing · 2026-06-25 · in Deno 2.9

…going to mention Node's `--experimental-transform-types`, but that was completely removed in v26: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61803

comment by Timon3 · 2026-06-22 · in Deno Desktop

…Test 262: https://github.com/tc39/test262 For node that's its unit tests which are mostly JS: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/test Node also runs the web platform tests too: https://web-platform-tests.org/ Bun has a similar large…

comment by esprehn · 2026-06-20 · in Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

Node refuses to support TypeScript within node_modules, see https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/58429 this means you can't do "Typescript-only npm packages". They made that intentionally at the beginning: > Currently there is consensus…

comment by Ciantic · 2026-05-22 · in Deno 2.8

…version, in v25.7.0 from February. Release notes: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v25.7.0 Issue: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61262

comment by dieulot · 2026-05-21 · in Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

Wait till you hear about https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478

comment by szmarczak · 2026-05-14 · in Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

…drum roll please... node:Ffi! Really cool stuff. https://github.com/anomalyco/opentui/pull/939 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62762 Also worth noting that opentui is... Zig! Very unclear what it's going to take to get this reviewed…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-05-09 · in Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

…we might see older typescript features like enums slowly getting phased out. [0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61803

comment by wartijn_ · 2026-05-05 · in Node.js 26 Released

In Node 26 it will be removed https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61803

comment by wartijn_ · 2026-05-05 · in I am worried about Bun

…that approach that v8 takes and we've been able to deal with that just fine. Update on QUIC , https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/57281 (2025).

comment by ignoramous · 2026-04-14 · in OpenSSL 4.0.0

…and likely modified code generated by an AI, you generated the code and hold the copyright. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478 https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-fil...

comment by cml123 · 2026-03-23 · in Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop

Considering the many hundreds of technical comments over at the PR ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478 ), the 8 reviewers thanked by name in the article, and the stellar reputations of those involved, seems likely.

comment by joshkel · 2026-03-17 · in Node.js needs a virtual file system

…is fine with the DCO on AI-assisted contributions. We’ll work on getting this documented. [1]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478#issuecomment-40772...

comment by syrusakbary · 2026-03-17 · in Node.js needs a virtual file system

The submitted code must adhere to either of (a), (b), (c), and separately a (d) clause of: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#dev... If submitter picks (a) they assert that they wrote the code themselves and have…

comment by indutny · 2026-03-17 · in Node.js needs a virtual file system

yarn pnp is currently broken on Node v25.7+; - https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/issues/7065 - https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62012 This is because yarn patches fs in order to introduce virtual file path resolution of modules in the…

comment by Normal_gaussian · 2026-03-17 · in Node.js needs a virtual file system

This reminded me to check, and now I'm happy to see Argon2 has finally made it into Node.js core! https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/34452

comment by franciscop · 2025-10-22 · in Evaluating Argon2 adoption and effectiveness in real-world software

To be fair, nodejs has 36 open, 474 closed: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues?q=Segfault

comment by latchkey · 2025-09-20 · in Is Zig's new writer unsafe?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/57215 Not supporting type stripping in node_modules is unfortunate

comment by rovingeye · 2025-08-17 · in Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration

ljharb has commit rights (edit: maybe? maybe not. not sure) to nodejs itself https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/55918 so.. I don't know. if he wanted to bad he would already

comment by karel-3d · 2025-08-08 · in Cursed Knowledge

There is a PR open since June. It's currently blocked by a MacOS CI issue. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58491

comment by Snafuh · 2025-08-06 · in How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58517 - I think the `semver-major` and the timing mean that it might not be available until v25, around October

comment by tchetwin · 2025-08-04 · in Modern Node.js Patterns

…require some transpilation as well [1]: https://nodejs.org/en/learn/typescript/run-natively [2]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58643

comment by jauco · 2025-07-17 · in Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration

…lacks something like `assert.any()` to match object in `deepEqual`. So I still need to use vitest. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/55319

comment by Aldipower · 2025-07-11 · in Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025

…to do quic, ignoring input. But that's finally starting to move. https://github.com/hyperium/h3 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/57281 Muxio was able to define itself & an inpl pretty fast, and performance & usability are probably…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-01 · in Muxio: Rust layered stream and RPC toolkit

There's a fair bit of work to do if we want to retire some of these C programs: https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/python/cpython

comment by mrkeen · 2025-06-28 · in Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

…so much of this work has been done for Node & there's just no straightforward path forwards. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/57281

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-03-17 · in HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere

…things, but even on a LTS release of node they released a [build where utf+8 strings were broken]( https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/54543 ) and our builds were failing silently.

comment by dyl000 · 2025-03-11 · in Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir

…Go https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/Makefil... NodeJS https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/Makefile OCaml https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/Makefile Python https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/

comment by dumah · 2025-01-31 · in A better build system for OCaml

…it ...BUT on the other hand, node.js for example has released support for it already in June 2024: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/51562

comment by gdubicki · 2025-01-12 · in HTTP QUERY method reached consensus and may become a Proposed Standard

…valid to conclude a real world performance increase? one possible confounder is the version of V8. https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v18.x/deps/v8/include/v8... https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v20.x/deps/v8/include/v8... ideally,…

comment by Cicero22 · 2024-12-24 · in Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023)

…mocking as of today. I switched to Vitest because Jest was giving me flaky coverage results: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/51251 And while Vitest' coverage is stable, I had to add an indirection layer to change how I mock out calls…

comment by OptionOfT · 2024-11-26 · in Vitest vs. Jest

…would've used it (perhaps using `y.finally()`) which would have solved the memory leak. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17469#issuecomment-349...

comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-11-23 · in Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await

…like to see TC39 standardize this [3]. [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42213031#comment5 [2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17469#issuecomment-349... [3] https://github.com/cefn/watchable/tree/main/packages/unpromi...

comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-11-23 · in Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await

…if a promise never gets resolved, it will stick around forever. It's braindead, but it's the spec: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17469

comment by cyberax · 2024-11-23 · in Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await

…practically requires a 3rd party HTTP client. Or Java that doesn't even have JSON support. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/main/lib

comment by paulddraper · 2024-11-22 · in The tragedy of running an old Node project

…wrong. It absolutely is a thing and it has been in your browser and Node for longer than a year. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48518 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...

comment by sureIy · 2024-11-18 · in Web Locks API

…418 status code from different languages and implementations because it wasn't technically correct. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14644 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21326 And someone even ended up making a website…

comment by 0x00cl · 2024-10-28 · in 418 I’m a teapot

…work to get everybody on the same page (About my previous example, it's not well engaged by example https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/55419 ), but when done and right done, it's a huge win for developers. PHP PSR, RFC & co are the way.

comment by webda2l · 2024-10-25 · in OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging

…Which tells me literally nothing about this "notable change", unless I go to the pull request: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/52535 > module: implement NODE_COMPILE_CACHE for automatic on-disk code caching #52535 Which still doesn't…

comment by shortrounddev2 · 2024-10-16 · in Node.js – v23.0.0

…`select` statement. Turns out that in JS it is actually useless because it LEAKS MEMORY BY DESIGN: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17469 Back to the article. It uses pre-generics Go. In more modern Go, you can use something like Conc…

comment by cyberax · 2024-10-04 · in Go Concurrency vs. RxJS

At least Node.js has added experimental support that seems to do that: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53725 But this is just an on-the-fly transpile(natively supported). It would be much better if JavaScript would go the Python route.…

comment by Fannon · 2024-09-26 · in ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler

…Kubernetes when Node 20 had enabled it by default. They scrambled and turned it off by default in https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/686da19abb

comment by watt · 2024-09-24 · in What Is Io_uring?