Because Node 0.12 took forever to be released, looks more and more like vaporware, and the community demands new V8 features yesterday. Oh, and the V8 version b

Because Node 0.12 took forever to be released, looks more and more like vaporware, and the community demands new V8 features yesterday. Oh, and the V8 version bundled with the current stable Node was no longer maintained even at launch time.