I guess I'm excited that a community figure is forking/creating/updating a new-ish Javascript framework and I should focus on AmberJS in my comment, but...
I can't help but feeling that the oh-so-confusing situation with SproutCore just got more confusing. I, like many others, tried to start using SproutCore and found it to be a poorly documented jumble of code. Fortunately, SproutCore 2.0 was going to fix a lot of that. Only now it isn't. Do we have two half-baked, related frameworks? Are they kinda ports of each other? Is SproutCore 1.x now deprecated? And how confusing will it be when SproutCore 1.x upgrades to a not-AmberJS SproutCore 2.x?
This smells of politics/investor-meddling/internal-disagreements/something to me: fresh, innovative, though-derivative take on an existing codebase is forked out of the original company and is moved under another company (Tilde). Something seems amiss.
"Fortunately, SproutCore 2.0 was going to fix a lot of that. Only now it isn't. Do we have two half-baked, related frameworks? Are they kinda ports of each other? Is SproutCore 1.x now deprecated? And how confusing will it be when SproutCore 1.x upgrades to a not-AmberJS SproutCore 2.x?"
SproutCore 2.0 becomes Amber. We'll be moving the code into the amberjs organization today. The SproutCore folks, who are now focusing on native-style applications, will be carrying the torch on the (not deprecated) SproutCore 1.x.
I can't help but feeling that the oh-so-confusing situation with SproutCore just got more confusing. I, like many others, tried to start using SproutCore and found it to be a poorly documented jumble of code. Fortunately, SproutCore 2.0 was going to fix a lot of that. Only now it isn't. Do we have two half-baked, related frameworks? Are they kinda ports of each other? Is SproutCore 1.x now deprecated? And how confusing will it be when SproutCore 1.x upgrades to a not-AmberJS SproutCore 2.x?
This smells of politics/investor-meddling/internal-disagreements/something to me: fresh, innovative, though-derivative take on an existing codebase is forked out of the original company and is moved under another company (Tilde). Something seems amiss.