As announced
earlier , today, on January 13, the first release of
io.js should take place. In addition, today at 22:00 Moscow time,
an open meeting of the team will be
held dedicated to the preparations for the first release.
At the end of last year there was a split in the nodejs development team. It was caused by the fact that parts of the team did not like the model for managing such a landmark project. While in a stable version of Chrome, you can already use such features as Symbol, for-of, the Set and Map collections, Promise, for nodejs so far this is not the case. During the month of its existence, the project was noted more than 7,000 times.
Io.js is already available
now and by default ES6 features such as are included:
- Block scoping (let, const, and function-in-blocks) (strict mode only)
- Collections
- Generators
- Binary and octal literals ( which, by the way, are already used in the core of the project )
- Promises
- Symbols
- Template literals
The project is supposed to include all features that are marked as stable (
about typeof null, I note that its support has been removed / hidden from v8, so you can not be afraid ). Already, all this can be safely used.
Io.js, like Chrome, will use a 6-week development cycle, after which a stable version of v8 will be included in a stable version of the project. It is not yet clear how the version of io.js will correlate with this. However, it is clear that the first release will be 1.0.0 due to possible conflicts with nodejs (
in the engines section you can specify with which version of node and npm the library is required to work ).
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Project website:
iojs.orgRep:
iojs / io.js