Comment by Killswitch
11 years ago
Because Io.js is a Node.js replacement, but most of the time you're probably going to instinctively type `node script.js` and not `iojs script.js` so the symlink is just a helper.
11 years ago
Because Io.js is a Node.js replacement, but most of the time you're probably going to instinctively type `node script.js` and not `iojs script.js` so the symlink is just a helper.
It's for bin scripts such as NPM which refer to the executable directly. See here: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/249