Node.js Forked By Top Contributors

New submitter jonhorvath writes: Several of the top contributors to Node.js, a popular open source run-time environment, have decided to fork the project, creating io.js as an alternative. The developers were unhappy with how cloud computing company Joyent was directing work on Node.js. Mikeal Rogers said, "We don't want to have just one person who's appointed by a company making decisions. We want contributors to have more control, to seek consensus." Here's the new repository, and a README file to go with it. A developer at Uber tweeted that they've already migrated to io.js on their production systems. It'll be interesting to see how many other sites follow.

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Re: Effort dilution

[Anonymous Coward]

Nonsense. Node.js has a niche just like any other, and if you consider "having a niche" as "dilution" or "distraction" then I don't think it's node.js that has the problems. That, and all of your alternatives are hardly that much better than JS for the common app node.js is used for. If you're going to aim for idealism over pragmatism then at least put a decent language on there like Haskell or Rust or Go. Erlang is the only one that's a substantial improvement over JS in this case, but good luck finding competent Erlang coders compared to competent JS coders.