node's strength is its community -- how do any of the things you cited indicate that the community is going to fork, especially over a non-technical issue? The

node's strength is its community -- how do any of the things you cited indicate that the community is going to fork, especially over a non-technical issue? The reason io.js took off with the community is because it addressed a core technical issue in node, namely the outdated version of V8 that 0.x was using. It's a bit like the Bitcoin fork -- the only thing that matters is adoption, not resignations over personal issues and private meetings. If Ayo.js suddenly offered 2x the performance of node, then we'd have a real story. Right now, this is the type of internal bickering that happens in any organization.