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by vdaniuk 3767 days ago
Microsoft's Chakra engine is available as an alternative backend for node (windows only at the moment) and has native support of async/await.

https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore
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iends 3767 days ago
Does it still only run on Windows?
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vdaniuk 3767 days ago
AFAIK linux and mac release is coming later this year and even then it won't have JIT support.
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hiteshk_msft 3767 days ago
For now. The Linux branch of ChakraCore is under active development.

Disclaimer: working at Msft on ChakraCore

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