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The Node.JS project has a problem in that it has never had a specification - only a defacto implementation based on an ever-changing V8 engine with whatever ECMAScript compliance that V8 had at the time. Recently Google made big changes to the V8 API that broke Node Buffer in a rather large way and the Node devs had to do handsprings to put together a less than optimal workaround to get it working with V8 ArrayBuffer. Node.JS is at the mercy of Google's V8 engine which is designed first and foremost for Chrome.

ChakraCore did the impossible in that they've mimicked the V8 C++ API to make it appear to Node as V8. But this trick will only work for so long as Google continues to change its engine.

It would be better for Node long term to have a JS engine independent C ABI. But the core developers of the Node project are resisting this idea as they believe Node is V8 only. I don't think that Node will ever officially merge Chakra. They just want it to go away.