I haven’t seen many discussions on this subject, but are there any ways or plans to upgrade NodeJS into version 14? Version 12 is limited on some parts and generally, v14 adds more support for top-level async and other important and useful features of Node. Sure someone may say v12 is LTS hence why it’s used, but alongside other versions, v14.15.5 is also LTS.
So back to the original question, is there a way to use NodeJS v14+ or any plans by cfx to do that?
Node 14.x has a few critical bugs with certain external APIs that seem unfixed still.
Until this is fixed, we can’t upgrade.
Node.js’ release schedule seems to be utter trash, things are marked as ‘stable’ and ‘LTS’ even despite not being working whatsoever, and since we have a lot of customizations to Node.js codebase to integrate with external IO loops, there’s also a massive potential of regressions that people will take 3-4 weeks to report if an API is missing a wrapper or such.
Also,
Is it? No matter what version of V8 or I/O wrappers are used, it’s Turing-complete, so not ‘limited’ at all.
top-level async is a V8 feature, nothing to do with Node.js and likely would not be supported in our runtime without random additional nonsense.
Like… what?