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Title    Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js Fork that Ended up as a Giant, Unifying Step Forward
Date    Sunday June 21 2015, @08:17AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the two-nodes-back-into-one dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/21/0149253

tonymercmobily writes with a FreeSoftwareMagazine interview:

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

Original Submission

Links
  1. "tonymercmobily" - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/
  2. "uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds" - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_mikeal_rogers_nodejs_fork_ended_giant_unifying_step_forward
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=7896
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