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Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) nodejs.org

jdthedisciplean hour ago

> Upsert (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-upsert): [Weak]Map.prototype.getOrInsert(), [Weak]Map.prototype.getOrInsertComputed()

Their usage of upsert appears different than I was used to:

Me: Upsert = Update or Insert

Them: Upsert = Get or Insert

bakkotingan hour ago

The proposal used to do more thing and we didn't change the URL after we ultimately arrived at this set of APIs.

pjmlp3 hours ago

26.2.0 is already out, why link to the previous release?

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.2.0

What I would expect with the inclusion of temporal, is having a section on nodejs docs about Rust addons, alongside the C and C++ sections.

aarestadop3 hours ago

That's on me - I saw v26 was released, but didn't realize they'd already done a point release in the ensuing 2-3 weeks!

petercooper2 hours ago

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.1.0 is particularly cool as it added initial FFI support.

noodlesUK4 hours ago

I'm really looking forward to the temporal api being universally available. Moment and Luxon are fairly good but sensible date/time handling is something that really ought to be baked into the platform ootb.

jpsimons3 hours ago

I always thought the old Date is kind of elegant... increment anything with an overflow and it all wraps around correctly, like `d.setDate(d.getDate() + 100)` to advance a date 100 days. "March 208th" is interpreted like you'd expect, as are the hours and minutes and such.

Of course, complete lack of non-local non-GMT time zones is a huge downside.

keeganpoppen3 hours ago

i'm pretty sure all that stuff works w/ Temporal... Temporal is extremely well-designed, in my experience. the js date object, on the other hand, has insane pitfalls, and i say this as someone who thinks not understanding JS ASI is a "skill issue", among other happily-un-"ergonomic" worldviews...

kaoD17 minutes ago

That's how you get date bugs.

culi4 hours ago

Until then, a solid backfill has been available for quite some time

chrisweekly2 hours ago

Tangent: if you use Node.js at build time you should check out VitePlus https://viteplus.dev

(No affiliation, just a fan of VoidZero's consistently excellent tools.)

KronisLV2 hours ago

Oh hey, they're the people behind Oxlint and Oxfmt: https://oxc.rs/

I moved some projects over to those from ESLint + Prettier and while the compatibility isn't 100% (I didn't need that), and the time to process a codebase went from like way over a minute with the old tools to a few seconds with theirs.

rumblefrog2 hours ago

Looks interesting, what's their revenue model? Or how do we know it won't be abandoned in the near future?

shimmanan hour ago

The same as any other dev tool startup, once money gets tight they will monetize and users will rightfully revolt.

Evan You won't break the cycle, tale as old as time.

lioeters5 minutes ago

After getting burned so many times on libraries, frameworks, services and platforms, even entire languages - one learns to be wary of critical dependencies. Every new project offers convenience in exchange for you giving up control of part of the software stack, and the power dynamic is often exploited sooner or later as revenue source. You can't trust anything that becomes irreplaceable, or that you can't write it (or at least understand it) yourself.

manniLan hour ago

VoidZero's business model is in Void, their deployment platform. Open source projects will always stay open source. This was announced at the very beginning.

shimman4 minutes ago

Yes, nothing different from any other VC dev tool startup. When the community fractures people simply move on to something else. See rome -> biome for a very recent example.

jauco2 hours ago

Also the release that drops typescript transforms: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51

(I’m not disagreeing to remove it. It just took me a while to find out what happened to it)

pier252 hours ago

Initially it didn't make sense to me... but it looks like type striping is really the way to go for future TS.

There's the "types as comments" proposal[1] which could even land on browsers one day.

I started using the erasableSyntaxOnly setting in my tsconfig to get ready for this.

[1] https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

torgoguys3 hours ago

I thought this was the release where the built in sqlite got its experimental tag removed, but I don't see it in the release notes. THAT'S got me excited more than Temporal. A stable API, huge utility and one less dependency.

sedatk2 hours ago

Off-topic but, Safari seems to be the only browser that doesn't support Temporal yet. It looks like the only blocker for adopting it on web.

https://caniuse.com/?search=Temporal

owebmaster37 minutes ago

No but Google wants to control the Web (they do).

jollymonATX29 minutes ago

(Now with Malware) I joke! It already had malware.

emilfihlman2 hours ago

It's so sad that node refuses to add websocket server support.

Adding websocket would simplify stuff tremendously, as well as make deployments much, much more secure.

skybrianan hour ago

Why more secure?

I see that Deno has WebSockets, but I've never used them: https://docs.deno.com/api/web/~/WebSocket

owebmaster37 minutes ago

"ws" is regularly the only package in my package.json

actionfromafar2 hours ago

And here I thought that it was about https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-typescript

cute_boi3 hours ago

Node JS team should look into bun and make progress. They are somewhat stable, but bun have lot of features and is more performant than Node.

HatchedLake7213 hours ago

/s ? Bun is not yet (ever?) compatible with Node. I'm sure if Node JS could trim the fat with breaking changes they'd be fast too

xkcd-sucksan hour ago

Honest question, what isn't compatible? Where I work we've simply replaced node with bun across a lot of overcomplicated + crappy projects, and on my work+personal computers I alias bun/bunx to node/npx with seemingly no issues at all

notnullorvoid2 hours ago

In my testing Bun wasn't much faster most of the time, usually on par for all non-IO related stuff, and there were some cases with scheduling where Bun was noticable slower.

bel83 hours ago

I expect bun to run almost everything that node runs these days. They have an extensive test suit to ensure that.

Even the complicated NextJS runs with Bun: https://nextjs.org/conf/session/nextjs-bun

Do you have a source for your claim?

vichle3 hours ago

Maybe if you start from scratch with a new project, but when migrating an old project it's definitely not a drop-in replacement. I try once or twice per year, but it's not worth the effort when the upside isn't that big.

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postepowanieadm3 hours ago

They should the unexpected and vibe code node to zig. Or Odin for the kicks.

pjmlpan hour ago

I see no reason to leave node in what concerns JavaScript runtimes.

karel-3d3 hours ago

they should rewrite their whole stack by AI from one language to another language, it seems fun.

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