In the name of competition and architectural flexibility, perhaps the io.js team will be more receptive. :)
AFAIK, though, V8 is so tightly integrated into Node core that a third-party library, NaN ("Native Abstractions for Node.js"), was created to improve API compatibility for Node binary addons:
AFAIK, though, V8 is so tightly integrated into Node core that a third-party library, NaN ("Native Abstractions for Node.js"), was created to improve API compatibility for Node binary addons:
https://github.com/rvagg/nan