Node v4.0.0

Excited to see this happen so soon. I was expecting it to take a bit longer.

I see it's still shipping npm v2. Any news on when npm v3 will be "production-ready" and the default version?

This is crazy fast shipment..almost scary that you have to start keeping up with all the changes..

For anyone who wants to upgrade either from node 0.12 or iojs 3.30..all you have to do is re-install it with the GUI installer and you're good to go..for your personal computer at least!

Same with Homebrew, por favor.

As somebody who uses Node only at the periphery of my role (for things like the Zombie browser, and SASS parsing) the massive instability has put me off from relying on it for anything core.

Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don't work, there's no 'recommended' approach for even basic tasks.

I won't pretend I'm speaking for everyone, as clearly there are lots of people doing great things with Node. However, it doesn't seem to be a language like Ruby or Python where I would feel comfortable using it for a small but important project.

I'm always grateful to everyone who works on open source projects, but I wouldn't hold Node up as a great example of the open source community.

Guys, does V8 still deoptimize on ES6 features? For example, would using say const/lets in a function prevent V8 from optimizing it as a whole? That was the case some time ago when these features were still under a flag.