Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)(nodejs.org)
117 pointsby aarestad5 hours ago12 comments
  • jdthedisciple3 hours ago
    > Upsert (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-upsert): [Weak]Map.prototype.getOrInsert(), [Weak]Map.prototype.getOrInsertComputed()

    Their usage of upsert appears different than I was used to:

    Me: Upsert = Update or Insert

    Them: Upsert = Get or Insert

    • bakkoting2 hours ago
      The proposal used to do more thing and we didn't change the URL after we ultimately arrived at this set of APIs.
    • OptionOfTan hour ago
      Reminds me of the weird C++ map operator[] behavior.

      If you use that operator and the value doesn't exist, it'll default create one and return a reference to that.

      And as I'm writing this I realize why... references cannot be `null`.

  • pjmlp5 hours ago
    26.2.0 is already out, why link to the previous release?

    https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.2.0

    What I would expect with the inclusion of temporal, is having a section on nodejs docs about Rust addons, alongside the C and C++ sections.

  • chrisweekly4 hours ago
    Tangent: if you use Node.js at build time you should check out VitePlus https://viteplus.dev

    (No affiliation, just a fan of VoidZero's consistently excellent tools.)

    • KronisLV3 hours ago
      Oh hey, they're the people behind Oxlint and Oxfmt: https://oxc.rs/

      I moved some projects over to those from ESLint + Prettier and while the compatibility isn't 100% (I didn't need that), and the time to process a codebase went from like way over a minute with the old tools to a few seconds with theirs.

    • rumblefrog3 hours ago
      Looks interesting, what's their revenue model? Or how do we know it won't be abandoned in the near future?
      • shimman2 hours ago
        The same as any other dev tool startup, once money gets tight they will monetize and users will rightfully revolt.

        Evan You won't break the cycle, tale as old as time.

        • lioetersan hour ago
          After getting burned so many times on libraries, frameworks, services and platforms, even entire languages - one learns to be wary of critical dependencies. Every new project offers convenience in exchange for you giving up control of part of the software stack, and the power dynamic is often exploited sooner or later as revenue source. You can't trust anything that becomes irreplaceable, or that you can't write it (or at least understand it) yourself.
        • manniL2 hours ago
          VoidZero's business model is in Void, their deployment platform. Open source projects will always stay open source. This was announced at the very beginning.
          • shimmanan hour ago
            Yes, nothing different from any other VC dev tool startup. When the community fractures people simply move on to something else. See rome -> biome for a very recent example.
  • noodlesUK5 hours ago
    I'm really looking forward to the temporal api being universally available. Moment and Luxon are fairly good but sensible date/time handling is something that really ought to be baked into the platform ootb.
    • jpsimons5 hours ago
      I always thought the old Date is kind of elegant... increment anything with an overflow and it all wraps around correctly, like `d.setDate(d.getDate() + 100)` to advance a date 100 days. "March 208th" is interpreted like you'd expect, as are the hours and minutes and such.

      Of course, complete lack of non-local non-GMT time zones is a huge downside.

      • keeganpoppen4 hours ago
        i'm pretty sure all that stuff works w/ Temporal... Temporal is extremely well-designed, in my experience. the js date object, on the other hand, has insane pitfalls, and i say this as someone who thinks not understanding JS ASI is a "skill issue", among other happily-un-"ergonomic" worldviews...
      • kaoDan hour ago
        That's how you get date bugs.
    • culi5 hours ago
      Until then, a solid backfill has been available for quite some time
  • jauco3 hours ago
    Also the release that drops typescript transforms: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51

    (I’m not disagreeing to remove it. It just took me a while to find out what happened to it)

    • pier253 hours ago
      Initially it didn't make sense to me... but it looks like type striping is really the way to go for future TS.

      There's the "types as comments" proposal[1] which could even land on browsers one day.

      I started using the erasableSyntaxOnly setting in my tsconfig to get ready for this.

      [1] https://tc39.es/proposal-type-annotations/

  • torgoguys4 hours ago
    I thought this was the release where the built in sqlite got its experimental tag removed, but I don't see it in the release notes. THAT'S got me excited more than Temporal. A stable API, huge utility and one less dependency.
  • OptionOfTan hour ago
    Node v26 doesn't ship with corepack anymore. Annoying, it was a decent way to get pnpm in-band.
  • sedatk3 hours ago
    Off-topic but, Safari seems to be the only browser that doesn't support Temporal yet. It looks like the only blocker for adopting it on web.

    https://caniuse.com/?search=Temporal

    • owebmaster2 hours ago
      No but Google wants to control the Web (they do).
  • emilfihlman3 hours ago
    It's so sad that node refuses to add websocket server support.

    Adding websocket would simplify stuff tremendously, as well as make deployments much, much more secure.

  • actionfromafar3 hours ago
    And here I thought that it was about https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-typescript
  • cute_boi4 hours ago
    Node JS team should look into bun and make progress. They are somewhat stable, but bun have lot of features and is more performant than Node.
    • HatchedLake7214 hours ago
      /s ? Bun is not yet (ever?) compatible with Node. I'm sure if Node JS could trim the fat with breaking changes they'd be fast too
      • xkcd-sucks2 hours ago
        Honest question, what isn't compatible? Where I work we've simply replaced node with bun across a lot of overcomplicated + crappy projects, and on my work+personal computers I alias bun/bunx to node/npx with seemingly no issues at all
      • bel84 hours ago
        I expect bun to run almost everything that node runs these days. They have an extensive test suit to ensure that.

        Even the complicated NextJS runs with Bun: https://nextjs.org/conf/session/nextjs-bun

        Do you have a source for your claim?

        • vichle4 hours ago
          Maybe if you start from scratch with a new project, but when migrating an old project it's definitely not a drop-in replacement. I try once or twice per year, but it's not worth the effort when the upside isn't that big.
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      • notnullorvoid3 hours ago
        In my testing Bun wasn't much faster most of the time, usually on par for all non-IO related stuff, and there were some cases with scheduling where Bun was noticable slower.
    • postepowanieadm4 hours ago
      They should the unexpected and vibe code node to zig. Or Odin for the kicks.
    • pjmlp2 hours ago
      I see no reason to leave node in what concerns JavaScript runtimes.
    • karel-3d4 hours ago
      they should rewrite their whole stack by AI from one language to another language, it seems fun.
  • jollymonATX2 hours ago
    (Now with Malware) I joke! It already had malware.