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

Does it still only run on Windows?

AFAIK linux and mac release is coming later this year and even then it won't have JIT support.

For now. The Linux branch of ChakraCore is under active development.

Disclaimer: working at Msft on ChakraCore