io.js has many of the top core Node.js contributors. They're trying to move server-side JavaScript forward with open governance, faster release cycles, ES6, etc.
Thanks.
That website needs serious work in terms of wording. Absolutely zero information on the website apart from the extremely vague tagline. I clicked a few links and all I could find was politics. Without the context given on HN I would still be wondering:
Is it a node.js replacement? Is it a NPM replacement? Is it a dog? Is it a cat? Can I eat it?
Even you want to sell something to people (even if that something is free as in beer) they need to know what that something is, first.
On the other hand, they've been saying that 0.12 will come out 'soon' for over a year, so this too may take longer than I expect.
By comparison, @nodejs announced on Dec 17th, 2014 that 0.11.15 was "tomorrow", but still haven't released anything: https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/545349270241435648