> The V8 team is thinking of adding yield/defer support to make programming in Node neater. There's hope yet.

There is SpiderNode, not sure what the status of it is, but it replaces V8 in node.js with SpiderMonkey. SpiderMonkey already has yield and much other new JS syntactic sugar.

http://blog.zpao.com/post/4620873765/about-that-hybrid-v8mon...