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Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.s, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers to actually contribute to code. This is why Fedor Indutny did the unthinkable: forked node and created IO.js. Today, the two projects are uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds
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Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js Fork that Ended up as a Giant, Unifying Step Forward
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by OwMyBrain on Monday June 22 2015, @02:16PM
Long ago, in the before times, the wizards of the Internet created the web browser as prison for Javascript. For those sages new the horrors that would be unleashed upon the world should Javascript ever truly be free. Alas, the years have passed and the treachery of Javascript hath been forgot. Javascript's prison is broken! Woe, woe, woe unto us! The shadow is spreading, and soon all the stack shall be covered in darkneses.