One of the performance improvements [0] is pretty crazy! Up to an 18,000% performance increase.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5123" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5123</a>
<i>I am happy that there is Node.</i><p>I'm still mind blown every single day about the Node community—for me it's the fastest evolving dev ecosystem which is at the same time high performant and robust.
> child_process: spawn() and spawnSync() now support a 'shell' option to allow for optional execution of the given command inside a shell. If set to true, cmd.exe will be used on Windows and /bin/sh elsewhere. A path to a custom shell can also be passed to override these defaults. On Windows, this option allows .bat. and .cmd files to be executed with spawn() and spawnSync(). (Colin Ihrig) #4598<p>Does this mean that it can now open a real shell (like iTerm) and execute a script ? or I misunderstood ?