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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by cwmma on Friday November 28, 2014 @07:47AM (#8670749)
from the issues that have been opened [1] and closed [2] it looks like indutny, jonathanong, and rvagg are involved, aka all people involved with node forward

1. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/5 2. https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/7

Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by benatkin on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:11PM (#8683828)
Yes this appears to be the main thing at play right now. A small number of serious node hackers are contributing to io.js. This could be big, but it's too early for me to tell.