io.js was an open-source, community-driven fork of Node.js created in December 2014. It was born out of intense frustration with Node’s sluggish development cycles, corporate bottlenecking under its parent company Joyent, and a failure to adopt modern JavaScript (ES6) features.
Though it existed as an independent project for only about nine months, io.js completely transformed the backend JavaScript ecosystem. It forced a revolution in open governance, accelerated the modernization of the runtime, and ultimately swallowed Node.js whole to become the foundation of Node.js v4.0 and beyond. The Catalyst: Why the Fork Happened
By late 2014, the Node.js project had stalled under the management of corporate trademark owner Joyent. Major issues within the core ecosystem sparked the community rebellion:
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