Most prominently, the open-source Google Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which does just-in-time compilation, inlining, and dynamic code optimization, can actually outperform C++ code for some loads ...

though some Node developers believe a C++ API would be easier to use. Thus, the builders of Node.js anticipate wrapper modules to provide an inline-able C++ API. Paul Krill is editor at large at ...

The first time a native ES module appears in require(), an experimental warning is displayed. In the event of problems or regressions, users can report this in the Node.js issue tracker.