>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 se

>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. That already exists, it's called nan: https://github.com/nodejs/nan https://github.com/nodejs/nan