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For those that want more on top of Slate, there's Plate (fka slate-plugins) which provides a lot of extras as a separate package. https://plate.udecode.io/ https://github.com/udeco…

Here's my take on all of this: https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2016/10/17/announcing-the-js-fo... The feedback is interesting, but I think it helps to understand more of the history t…

I've been feeling similar to the way you feel for about 9 years, but with Dojo rather than Cappuccino. I stopped worrying or caring about fighting trends I cannot control years ago…

Being in a higher tax bracket doesn't lead you to pay more tax on your initial income, only a higher rate on money above a certain threshold. That said, the article is right in tha…

The latter point is your opinion, but certainly many developers actually believe it does. Dojo has plugins for localization and text loading that are needed for certain features. Y…

Dojo is used in more than 80% of the world's 2000 largest companies. Yes, it's not the default toolkit for WordPress or other large blogging and microsite platforms (which dominate…

Since 1.6, everything uses data-dojo-*, which is the HTML5 recommended approach for toolkits.

Check out the new docs. I think it's no longer reasonable to say Dojo lacks good docs or reference code. Marketing is challenging for engineers. We tend to not go crazy over every …

Popularity is fickle... things that are new and sexy get more buzz, things that are solid and reliable and powerful get used a lot, but don't receive as much hype.

That's fine. Dojo doesn't make this decision for you. Instead it gives you a full range of tools to choose for yourself how you want this to work. Some UI widgets (Dijits) choose t…

That's one of the major things that 1.7 fixes and 1.8 will fix even further... smaller modules and finer-grained dependencies so you aren't pulling in nearly as much base code for …

You might be interested in the dgrid project (see slides at http://www.slideshare.net/sitepen/dgrid-next-generation-dojo... and blog post at http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2011/10/26/…

http://build.dojotoolkit.org/ should soon be updated for 1.7. The CDN will be available asap.