First, it's a very nice new streams interface. Second, the core functionality can't change that much at this point if people want their old code to work. Read t

First, it's a very nice new streams interface. Second, the core functionality can't change that much at this point if people want their old code to work. Read the discussion of streams2 and see how much thought went into avoiding breakage. http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/12/20/streams2/ http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/12/20/streams2/