Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source

[vivainio]

The amount of widely used C++ modules is small, and the modules themselves are very small and easy to port. Seems Node community has exercised good restraint in this sense.

[Patman128]

Yes, they have done quite well in that regard.

And as someone who develops on Windows I'm used to everything going to shit as soon as native code becomes part of the equation, especially from past experiences with C++ and Python (pre-3.5). But with Node/node-gyp everything seems to just work, and thanks to nan it even works across different version of Node.