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This has been brewing for a while. I don't know most of the people involved but they post youtube videos of their meetings. isaacs is involved and get is the creator of npm so that is a good sign. As I understand it this is a direct backlash against joyent's governance of node and it's slow release cycle.

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Wired's quote from Joyent is, to me, rather telling:

"But for Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill, Node is alive and well, despite the slower pace of development. He says that Joyent has been focused on making Node faster and more stable, rather than adding new features. “You’ve got to look at the quality of contributions,” he explains, “not the quantity.”"

Node.js issues in my mind now are maintainability related, not performance related. They need to stop fetishizing performance and focus more on making node.js more accessible/easier to work with.

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