Adventures in Nodeland

Hi Everyone!

I usually don't mention anything that my startup has published in my newsletter; however, as I've been looking forward to this one for some time, I'm making an exception, as this is such an important milestone for

Hey Everyone!

This week I got deep into a V8 detail that ended up costing us real, measurable throughput in Node core — and I want to walk you through it, because the fix is not what most people would reach for.

It all starts with { __proto__: null }. You've probably used it a thousand times to build a clean "map"-like object that doesn't inherit from Object.pro...