JXcore is fork of Node that supports either V8 or SpiderMonkey. I suspect neither the Node or io.js developers are interested because they don't want the extra

JXcore is fork of Node that supports either V8 or SpiderMonkey. I suspect neither the Node or io.js developers are interested because they don't want the extra maintenance costs of supporting more platforms and abstraction layers. However, decoupling your product's core from its third-party dependencies is usually a good idea. V8 API and ABI changes have been enough a problem that someone created the NaN library (Native Abstractions for Node.js) to help Node plugin maintainers. https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore https://github.com/rvagg/nan https://github.com/rvagg/nan