When the backwards-compatible gloves are finally off. What do you do? Not a lot actually. Nerves remains compatible, reliable and more hand-crafted than not. A lot of the underpinnings are evolving though and the possibilities that are opening up are very interesting. This talk may cover new capabilities in Nerves but it is just as much the story of what needed changing, why and how it was done. Frank has been sneaking in parts of Nerves 2 into regular Nerves for a while now. Let's see what it all amounts to.