Node.js upgrades module safety and ECMAscript support

An ambitious roadmap for Node.js was laid out Friday, highlighted by performance boosts, virtual machine agnosticism, and module safety.
Node.js 7, which moves to a beta release next week, will feature the V8 5.4 JavaScript engine, which is focused on performance improvements linked to memory, said Mikeal Rogers, community manager of the Node.js Foundation, on Friday.[ Use JavaScript in your dev shop? InfoWorld looks at 17 JavaScript editors and IDEs and 22 JavaScript frameworks ready for adopt