a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by simbha
simbha  ·  3649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Future of Popular Coding Tool in Doubt After It Splits in Two | WIRED

'Io.JS"

Say, why is .io so popular among devs anyways?





veen  ·  3649 days ago  ·  link  ·  

IO is an abbreviation of input/output, so some tech companies started buying the domain names ending with .io. It's now seen as a hip thing to do, and there are a ton of domain names still free, as opposed to the crowded .com domain space.

user-inactivated  ·  3649 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's punny.