So... they've changed their tune almost completely. JXCore began life as an ambitious project to create a multithreaded/multicore variant of NodeJS by employing multiple V8 instances to run an app (as I understood it). Now it's on SpiderMonkey and they're downplaying the threading in favour of a cross platform app runtime sales pitch. The open source edition of this probably resembles the beta very little as they're now two distinct platforms. That renders me curious as to why they kept the name.