You are not forced to update (in another environment, I have customers with Rails apps in production of version 2.3, 3.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.2) but you have the option to develop with the latest technology. In those Rails examples: I'll start new projects with Rails 4.2 and Ruby 2.2.2 and not with what I had two years ago. In the JS world, I'd start with ES6 and the latest v8, not the old one from node.
Hey this isn't a constructive comment & you'll probably get downvoted for it. It happens to me whenever I comment in a thread that mentions Node.js because of my name. It is the best, but not everyone understands.
Gitter.im has an IRC interface so at least I can idle in my projects gitter irc chat in emacs when programming in the best programming language node.js
Thanks, I should probably look into that... I already have a pandora and slack window open all the time, and to add gitter.im to the mix, it's rarely open... I kind of wish I could just do it all from IRC.
I'm starting to think that creating a newer, extensible IRC client might be an opportunity.