Node.js v9.9.0

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Node is evolving pretty fast and thats good, I am personally in love with async/await that can be used without transpilers. But I believe it may be a good time to sort of slow down/mature so as to give long term stability for developers. It's bit crazy now. Isn't Java, which is like 14 years older just reached v10 like yesterday or so?.

Java also has a very different development structure. It's owned and build by Oracle (RIP Sun), who get final say in everything added to the language. This additional red tape, and a smaller dev team working on both bug fixes and new features naturally lead to a slower release cycle.

Compare that to Node, which, while organized by the Node.js foundation, makes it very easy for people to contribute bug fixes and ideas. The core node repo is nearing 2,000 contributors. Having people help out, even if it's just with bug fixes, allow core developers to focus on new features. I don't think iteration speed is a sign of instability. Node has a well established release cycle and LTS process.

Doesn't java have like a 90 day release cycle now [0]?

Java 9 is EOL in March 2018, and Java 10 is EOL in Sept 2018 [0]

0: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

If the major releases were slowed down to once annually to keep up with TC-39, that seems frequent enough.

Be aware that theres some ongoing issues like this one for 9.9.0: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19519 Other than that, congratz to the Node team!

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