Comment by sturadnidge
11 years ago
Not really, at least according to semver (which is what iojs uses). Stability of the API is denoted by a 1.x.x, it isn't necessarily an indication of the quality of the implementation, beta or otherwise.
Node 0.12 was always being referred to as 'pretty much the 1.0 API', not calling it 1.x.x was a kind of 'get out of jail free' card in my opinion. So i'm glad the iojs team have least drawn a line in the sand and declared their API stable.
1.x is not really about stability either. To quote from the semver FAQ:
>How do I know when to release 1.0.0?
>If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you're worrying a lot about backwards compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.