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Re: IO.js, a Node fork

#6
Not looking for dirt or anything, but why the fork? What makes this different from Node?

(Only clue so far is the "open governance model"; is that in contrast to Joyent maintaining Node?)

EDIT: Based on their CONTRIBUTING.md page[1], it looks like this is intended to be a more "community-driven" version of Node. A strike against is that SEVERAL (if not most) links in README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md still reference the joyent/node GitHub project.

[1]: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v0.12/CONTRIBUTING.md

Re: IO.js, a Node fork

#7
Any background on who's doing this or what the motivation is?

The linked site doesn't have much content besides a link to the GitHub repo.

EDIT: Even though it's not explicitly listed in the README or contributor list, the commit history does show a bit of detail: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commits/v0.12

Re: IO.js, a Node fork

#10
post #7

Any background on who's doing this or what the motivation is? The linked site doesn't have much content besides a link to the GitHub repo. EDIT: Even though it's not explicitly listed in the README or contributor list, the commit history does show a bit of detail: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commits/v0.12

Wired has a pretty good high level overview:

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/io-js/

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