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Re:V8 Release 5.1 by ofrobots on Saturday April 23, 2016 @02:56PM (#11556883)
To be precise, Node.js 6.x will include V8 5.0. There has been a little discussion on being able to include V8 5.1 down the road, maybe, but there is nothing concrete on it at this point.

Also, the fate for tail-call-elimination is pretty uncertain at the moment; see: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax

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Re:V8 Release 5.1 by inglor on Sunday April 24, 2016 @08:20AM (#11559441)
Oh hi, fancy seeing you here :]

Note that ptc syntax _ensures_ tail calls, tail calls themselves have _already_ been approved in ES2015 and are live in V8 (under a flag), you can follow their status here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4698

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Re:V8 Release 5.1 by richdougherty on Sunday April 24, 2016 @03:36AM (#11558900)
:( I was looking forward to tail calls.

As far as I can see WebKit/Safari is the only major browser that has an implementation: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#test-proper_tail_...

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