Instability is the very thing this merge and the foundation seek to address. Where there was once an uncertain future, there is now a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee bound by a Open Governance Model.
> It promises a stable future, so let's say I'm being cautiously optimistic.
This doesn't make sense in light of your initial comment. One of the big goals of IO was to move to semver and address unpredictability/instability that you describe.
If anything, the merging of Node and IO should give you confidence that project governance will be on the right track moving forward.
Also, when you consider the advancements in transpiled js, the js/node community is looking very wise compared with other language maintainers.
I'm not sure you're not trolling, but in case you have serious concerns, node.js 4.0.0 incorporates the history of io.js. io.js defined 1.0.0 in early 2015.
The future has never looked more stable for Node, just take a peek at the names of the companies sitting on the board: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/foundation-elects-b...