iojs - Bringing ES6 to the Node

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1. io.js
   Bringing ES6 to the Node
   Mark Wolfe
   

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2. 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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3. Community
   Open governance model
   As opposed to corporate stewardship
   Contributor ownership
   Currently 104 contributors and growing
   

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4. Release Model
   Weekly releases
   Supported versions of V8
   Predictable roadmap
   Healthy debate on key features/issues
   Such as promises.
   

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5. 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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6. ES6!
   let
   const
   Generators
   Promises
   Template Strings
   

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7. How to get it?
   nvm
   docker
   Download the Installer!
   

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8. Links
   https://iojs.org
   http://davidwalsh.name/es6-io
   http://blog.izs.me/post/104685388058/io-js
   https://github.com/creationix/nvm
   https://github.com/iojs/docker-iojs
   

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9. Links Continued
   io.js posts worth checking out
   https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/state-of-io-
   js-2b3094e6f923
   https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/io-js-week-
   of-march-6th-2f9344688277
   

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