It seems like the future-facing work is being done in the io.js repository.. that doesn't mean an eventual release from there will be called io.js. Can anyone link to anything more authoritative than a probably-not-updated README?
I could be wrong, but I don't think they are renaming anything. They just replaced the official Node.js Github repo with the io.js repo, and it has the old readme. I expect the readme will be updated.
They're really giving up one of the most recognizable platform names in tech (node.js)? Is this so Joyent can maintain control over its trademark? (However that implies they'll still use the name node.js for something.)
Is there an explanation of why nodejs became iojs somewhere and not the reverse? (and whether code will be updated to remove "node" references?)
I don't think this is accurate. I don't know when Ryan went to work for node, but if you listen to his earliest talks, where he discusses the journey he took to develop node, it was an independent project.
Additionally, these posts identify when Joyent took node under its umbrella (along with the IP):
With the io.js fork, the io.js open governance model, and advancements in the project moved significantly faster than NodeJS under Joyent. Since then the Node Foundation was created with a technical committee based on, and pretty much consisting of the io.js members with a few changes...
Most of the technical advancements regarding the source are from the io.js branches. Node 0.12 included Intl support, one of the few features in Node that wasn't in io.js, with some contention about the size.
The organization and releases will definitely be "Node" from 4.0 not io.js, the best guess is the movement of the branch happened ahead of updating the README file.
Someone with business sense would rarely, if ever, kill a hot brand. Guessing that this wasn't really all that well thought through. Either that or there's some legal or trademark issue.
Future Node.js releases will come from what is current io.js. That is all. The name is not changing. This is nothing to get excited about--this has been the plan all along.
For those wondering, this was a premature posting. Node.js is the name still, it's using io.js' source code from Node.js v4.0.0 and on. The Readme hasn't been updated yet.
This is a dumb posting with a really misleading title. Nowhere on the linked page does it say "Node.js/node is now io.js". Perhaps the maintainers should have updated the reamde before switching repos, but I suspect they're concentrating more on coding than on marketing.
This blog post[1] should clear up a lot of the confusion... Most of this is just the transition of the organizational structure from io.js to the Node Foundation.
We changed the title from "Node.js/node is now io.js".
Submitters: please don't make up your own title on a post you didn't write. If you change it to something misleading, the entire thread can easily become about that, as here. Use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, and if necessary find some representative language in the OP.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 80.9 ms ] threadBack in May, the two projects announced they were merging, and several things have been done in that respect:
* The io.js project joined the Node Foundation (https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1664#issuecomment-1018...). * Joyent transferred ownership of nodejs.org to the Linux Foundation (http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=nodejs.org).
It seems like the future-facing work is being done in the io.js repository.. that doesn't mean an eventual release from there will be called io.js. Can anyone link to anything more authoritative than a probably-not-updated README?
Is there an explanation of why nodejs became iojs somewhere and not the reverse? (and whether code will be updated to remove "node" references?)
I don't think this is accurate. I don't know when Ryan went to work for node, but if you listen to his earliest talks, where he discusses the journey he took to develop node, it was an independent project.
Additionally, these posts identify when Joyent took node under its umbrella (along with the IP):
https://www.joyent.com/blog/a-new-abode-for-node/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/lWo0MbHZ6Tc
I'm happy that the fork , led by the real maintainers of nodejs, is now the original project.
Most of the technical advancements regarding the source are from the io.js branches. Node 0.12 included Intl support, one of the few features in Node that wasn't in io.js, with some contention about the size.
The organization and releases will definitely be "Node" from 4.0 not io.js, the best guess is the movement of the branch happened ahead of updating the README file.
I think the next major release will be "Node.js v4.0.0"
It is part of github's repo description.
https://medium.com/@nodesource/essential-steps-long-term-sup...
Submitters: please don't make up your own title on a post you didn't write. If you change it to something misleading, the entire thread can easily become about that, as here. Use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, and if necessary find some representative language in the OP.