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Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js fork that ended up as a giant, unifying step forward
Accepted submission by tonymercmobily http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
at 2015-06-20 05:33:52
Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create amazingly 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 [freesoftwaremagazine.com]
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