<story><title>Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js</title><url>http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/12/v8-nodejs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Async&amp;#x2F;await will land in Node with the next V8 update.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You can actually try the async-await functionality with Node Current (7.2.1 as of this writing) by passing the flag --harmony-async-await:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    node --harmony-async-await app.js
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It will be available without flags in the LTS release in March (that is in 3 months). Say goodbye to Callback Hell, the future of Node.js is looking pretty good.</text></comment>
<story><title>Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js</title><url>http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/12/v8-nodejs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hackcrafter</author><text>I was confused when writing a NodeJs script last night which ES* features were supported in the node runtime I had installed (6.9.x).&lt;p&gt;This blog posts mentioned Node already fully supports ES6.&lt;p&gt;Is there a table anywhere that lists ES6&amp;#x2F;ES7 features and which nodejs version supports it natively?&lt;p&gt;I assume async&amp;#x2F;await (which I love and use from TypeScript) will only be available in Node 7.x and not 6.x.&lt;p&gt;The Node.js home-page makes node 7.x look scary unstable, is there any real-world caveats to using it?</text></comment>