Topic

Native addons

Native addons are C or C++ modules compiled against a language runtime's own C API and loaded into the process to expose native code to scripts.

Current clusters

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Node.js 26.9.0 loads node:ffi for imports that used to need a flag

Calling C from JavaScript no longer needs --experimental-ffi on Node.js 26.9.0, though the module still prints an experimental warning on every run, and one developer's benchmarks measure each call against a compiled addon.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption25
Hype gap+10
Incentives20
Confidence58