Node.js, the cool new kid on the JavaScript block, has finally hit a stable version today with the announcement that 4.0 is now available. The release is a big one, because it marks the official merge of Node.js and ios.js for the first time after they violently split last year over a dispute with the framework’s steward. Node 4.0 brings the same version of the V8 JavaScript engine used in the Chrome Web browser, along with a number of ES6 features. It also brings first-class support for ARM processors for the first time, and the Node foundation has built an extensive…
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