While some attendees at the Intuit Node Day conference in Silicon Valley on Friday were willing to talk about the recent io.js fork of Node.js when asked, the issue was not a prime topic of discussion from the speaker's podium. Surprisingly, the elephant in the room did not even come to the forefront until the final half-hour of the all-day event.
Instead, officials from such companies as PayPal, Intuit, and Netflix noted the growing importance of Node.js, or Node, the server-side JavaScript variant. Node core committer Trevor Norris, of software company NodeSource, talked about the upcoming 0.12 release of Node, which will feature the smalloc API, for allocating memory on an object, plus internationalization. But when asked his perspective on io.js afterward, Norris said he had none at the moment but was aware of the fork. "I am so buried in trying to get 0.12 out the door that I am taking no stance or anything on what's going on with that." A release candidate for 0.12 is expected Tuesday. "Once it's out the door, I'll start paying attention to other things."(Norris, though has been listed as being part of the io.js initiative.)
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