node-chakracore

Well, v8 is no longer the only alternative. Now there's Chakra as well. https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore Many native modules are however v8 modules, not sure how that may work.

See https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore It is not considered an official port, but the repo lives in the Node organization.

I started to use async/await because react-native and now I can't live without it. In nodejs you can have it: npm install --save babel-core babel-loader babel-polyfill babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-stage-0 Adding this to entry point file require("babel-core/register"); require("babel-polyfill"); and having a .babelrc with these presets: { "presets": ["es2015", "stage-0"] } Then you can transpile with babel-cli ( sudo npm install -g babel-cli if you don't have it yet) babel app.js -o transpiled_app.js Make sure you have npm version 3, or it become too slow to initialise. as @vdaniuk mention Chackra supports it, but did anyone tried this https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore? Is there any other way to get async/await today ?

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

That's correct. V8 license is required in v8-*.h files because they are v8 header files that chakra shim uses. The implementation files has Microsoft license. E.g. All files in https://github.com/Microsoft/node/tree/chnext/deps/chakrashi... Disclaimer: I work for Chakra team (powering node.js)

Ironically Microsoft had to create a V8 C++ API facade over Chakra in order for Node to compile with it. https://github.com/Microsoft/node/tree/chnext/deps/chakrashi... It's interesting that the license of the Chakra shim is the V8 license: https://github.com/Microsoft/node/blob/chnext/deps/chakrashi...

"MS will no doubt, at some point, release something like Node.js based on this engine" https://github.com/Microsoft/node - "This project enables Node.js to optionally use the Chakra JavaScript engine."

Microsoft is already working on lighting Node.js with ChakraCore. See https://github.com/Microsoft/node

Already exists: https://github.com/Microsoft/node