A Rundown
Fork of Node.JS
Trademark is owned by Joyent
Initially started life as nodeforward
Moved to io.js due to said trademark..
npm pretty much business as usual, mind the version
numbers though!
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Community
Open governance model
As opposed to corporate stewardship
Contributor ownership
Currently 104 contributors and growing
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Release Model
Weekly releases
Supported versions of V8
Predictable roadmap
Healthy debate on key features/issues
Such as promises.
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iojs and V8
Track the stable releases of V8
Enables both teams to work together on issues/
features
Tracing, on LINUX
Lots of good discussion between the projects
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ES6!
let
const
Generators
Promises
Template Strings