> I'm not sure why so many people are freaking out. Probably because you don't use any binary packages that haven't even made it to 4.x yet. My app requires on

> I'm not sure why so many people are freaking out. Probably because you don't use any binary packages that haven't even made it to 4.x yet. My app requires one so I'm still stuck on node 0.12 until they update. I've filed a bug report but before they could even respond 5.0 is out. Not they have a quandary: do they support 4.x or 5.x when they update? Npm doesn't support forks, so they can't get one version for users of 4.x and one for 5.x. The only sensible way to fix this that I can think of is to build in an extension layer into node so that binary packages don't use raw v8 APIs (since those seem to change a lot). Then that layer can be made (more) stable, even in the face of constant v8 upgrading.