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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by elisee on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:01PM (#8884212)
io.js is a fork/continuation of Node.js "unstable" 0.11.x branch. Node.js stable, under Joyent's stewardship, has been stuck in 0.10.x land for over a year.

io.js has many of the top core Node.js contributors. They're trying to move server-side JavaScript forward with open governance, faster release cycles, ES6, etc.

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by zamalek on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @04:57AM (#8885303)
> io.js is a fork/continuation of Node.js

Thanks.

That website needs serious work in terms of wording. Absolutely zero information on the website apart from the extremely vague tagline. I clicked a few links and all I could find was politics. Without the context given on HN I would still be wondering:

Is it a node.js replacement? Is it a NPM replacement? Is it a dog? Is it a cat? Can I eat it?

Even you want to sell something to people (even if that something is free as in beer) they need to know what that something is, first.

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by rpwverheij on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @05:28AM (#8885418)
completely agree. I didn't even get it was a node replacement. A spork of node? What is that? I might be missing some tech vocabulary, or just some native-english understanding. But the wording could be much more clear.
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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by frik on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @12:55AM (#8884566)
It will be interesting what Joyent will do with its 0.11 unstable branch and how popular io.js will get.
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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by martinko on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @01:32AM (#8884684)
The merge between the current 0.10.35 branch and the 0.12 branch is almost done (https://github.com/joyent/node/milestones/0.11.15), we can expect version 0.11.15 within then next few days. 0.11.15 will be a release candidate for 0.12.

On the other hand, they've been saying that 0.12 will come out 'soon' for over a year, so this too may take longer than I expect.

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by bigethan on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @02:32AM (#8884835)
As someone who's been waiting for that '0.12 soon' for over a year, io.js releasing as announced is amazing (even more-so is their open communication).

By comparison, @nodejs announced on Dec 17th, 2014 that 0.11.15 was "tomorrow", but still haven't released anything: https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/545349270241435648

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