Node.js Backstory and Future

In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Mikeal Rogers about the backstory of Node over the past few years to get to where we are today. We talked about io.js (the fork of Node), what’s happened in the community and the code since that time frame, how The Node.js Foundation has helped to solidify the foundation on which the Node ecosystem is being built on, initiatives and focuses in the near future, and more.

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Featuring:

• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

The Future of Node Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.

• The Changelog #139: The Rise of io.js with Mikeal Rogers
• The Changelog #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
• JS Party: Meet Mikeal Rogers - Panelist of JS Party
• Rich Trott on GitHub
• Spotlight #7: Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community with Tracy Hinds at Node.js Interactive 2016
• Working Toward a Safer, Inclusive Event: Node.js Interactive North America by Tracy Hinds, education community manager of the Node.js Foundation
• Node.js API (NAPI) - Node with PoC ABI stable API for native modules. The goal of this project is to provide a stable Node API for native module developers. NAPI aims to provide ABI compatibility guarantees across different Node versions and also across different Node VMs – allowing NAPI enabled native modules to just work across different versions and flavors of Node.js without recompilations.

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