Comment by shadowmint

11 years ago

If we're lucky this will turn into the 'unstable branch' with new features and things which is periodically folded back into the 'stable' node.js platform.

...but if node wont play ball, it'll become 'the new node', yes.

(there's a lot of backstory to this, which you can read about here: http://blog.izs.me/post/104685388058/io-js)