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+title: Node.js and the Road Ahead
+date: Thu Jan 16 15:00:00 PST 2014
+author: Timothy J Fontaine
+slug: nodejs-road-ahead
+
+As the new project lead for Node.js I am excited for our future, and want to
+give you an update on where we are.
+
+One of Node's major goals is to provide a small core, one that provides the
+right amount of surface area for consumers to achieve and innovate, without
+Node itself getting in the way. That ethos is alive and well, we're going to
+continue to provide a small, simple, and stable set of APIs that facilitate the
+amazing uses the community finds for Node. We're going to keep providing
+backward compatible APIs, so code you write today will continue to work on
+future versions of Node. And of course, performance tuning and bug fixing will
+always be an important part of every release cycle.
+
+The release of Node v0.12 is imminent, and a lot of significant work has gone
+into this release. There's streams3, a better keep alive agent for http, the vm
+module is now based on contextify, and significant performance work done in
+core features (Buffers, TLS, streams). We have a few APIs that are still being
+ironed out before we can feature freeze and branch (execSync, AsyncListeners,
+user definable instrumentation). We are definitely in the home stretch.
+
+But Node is far from done. In the short term there will be new releases of v8
+that we'll need to track, as well as integrating the new ABI stable C module
+interface. There are interesting language features that we can use to extend
+Node APIs (extend not replace). We need to write more tooling, we need to
+expose more interfaces to further enable innovation. We can explore
+functionality to embed Node in your existing project.
+
+The list can go on and on. Yet, Node is larger than the software itself. Node
+is also the community, the businesses, the ecosystems, and their related
+events. With that in mind there are things we can work to improve. 
+
+The core team will be improving its procedures such that we can quickly and
+efficiently communicate with you. We want to provide high quality and timely
+responses to issues, describe our development roadmap, as well as provide our
+progress during each release cycle. We know you're interested in our plans for
+Node, and it's important we're able to provide that information. Communication
+should be bidirectional: we want to continue to receive feedback about how
+you're using Node, and what your pain points are.
+
+After the release of v0.12 we will facilitate the community to contribute and
+curate content for nodejs.org. Allowing the community to continue to invest in
+Node will ensure nodejs.org is an excellent starting point and the primary
+resource for tutorials, documentation, and materials regarding Node. We have an
+awesome and engaged community, and they're paramount to our success. 
+
+I'm excited for Node's future, to see new and interesting use cases, and to
+continue to help businesses scale and innovate with Node. We have a lot we can
+accomplish together, and I look forward to seeing those results.