&gt; It promises a stable future, so let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m being cautiously optimistic.<p>This doesn&#x27;t make sense in light of your initial comment.  One of the big goals of IO was to move to semver and address unpredictability&#x2F;instability that you describe.<p>If anything, the merging of Node and IO should give you confidence that project governance will be on the right track moving forward.<p>Also, when you consider the advancements in transpiled js, the js&#x2F;node community is looking very wise compared with other language maintainers.