worker threads throws exception while loading npm lib

the following code fails if I'm trying to run it, seems the problem comes from the marked line below.

const {
  Worker, isMainThread, parentPort, workerData
} = require('worker_threads');

const Kafka = require('node-rdkafka'); // <-- Problemetic line..

if (isMainThread)
{
  console.log('main thread');
  const worker = new Worker(__filename, {
    workerData: 1
  });

  worker.on('message', (args) => console.log('got message from worker', args));
  worker.on('error', (args) => console.log('got error from worker', args));
  worker.on('exit', (code) => {
    if (code !== 0)
      console.log(`Worker stopped with exit code ${code}`);
  });

} else {
  const script = workerData;
  parentPort.postMessage(2);
}

'node-rdkafka' is a external library I'm using, and I was tempted to try and see if I could improve performance with the new worker threads.

while a worker is loaded, there's an error thrown saying 'Module did not self-register'.

this lib does work perfectly without the worker thread.

got error from worker Error: Module did not self-register.
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:718:18)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at bindings (/Users/danrevah/dev/git/tmp-librdkafka/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:81:44)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/danrevah/dev/git/tmp-librdkafka/node_modules/node-rdkafka/librdkafka.js:10:32)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)

Version: 10.6.0
Platform: Darwin Dans-MacBook-Pro.local 17.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.5.0: Fri Apr 13 19:32:32 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.51.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

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