Now that the reunion of Node.js and io.js factions is a done deal, Node.js users can look forward to an upcoming version that converges the two variants of the server-side JavaScript platform.

The release will feature capabilities from the ECMAScript 6 specification underlying JavaScript, which are already in io.js, said Mikeal Rogers, who has been a spokesman for the fork. “We’re working on a next major release that is a convergence of what happened in Node 0.12 and what’s happened in io.js,” he said in an interview. “And that should be ready in the next few weeks.”

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