The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by myth_drannon » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:06 PM UTC

The rise and fall of Ext JS
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Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by jlebrech » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

can someone explain to me the benefit of acquiring a totally unrelated company and how that makes business sense?

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by joelennon » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

jlebrech wrote: post #2

can someone explain to me the benefit of acquiring a totally unrelated company and how that makes business sense?

Idera (the company that acquired Sencha) own Embarcadero, the company who publishes Delphi. There's a third-party product called uniGUI for building Web applications with Delphi that heavily leverages ExtJS at the front-end. I suspect this has something to do with it.

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by adamnemecek » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC

> 2005: Smart phones did not exist.

Yeah, ok.

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by gotofritz » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:43 PM UTC

jlebrech wrote: post #2

can someone explain to me the benefit of acquiring a totally unrelated company and how that makes business sense?

A quick way to inherit a lot of engineers

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by jph » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:47 PM UTC

Great post. The history matches my firsthand experiences with Ext JS and Sencha, both in terms of tech and dev community engagement.

If you're curious about what Sencha code looks like: https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_sencha_demo_rest_json/blob/...

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by jlebrech » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

joelennon wrote: post #3

jlebrech wrote: post #2

can someone explain to me the benefit of acquiring a totally unrelated company and how that makes business sense?

Idera (the company that acquired Sencha) own Embarcadero, the company who publishes Delphi. There's a third-party product called uniGUI for building Web applications with Delphi that heavily leverages ExtJS at the front-end. I suspect this has something to do with it.

Oh actually bringing back Rapid Application Development for the web would be great.

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by joelennon » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

gotofritz wrote: post #5

jlebrech wrote: post #2

can someone explain to me the benefit of acquiring a totally unrelated company and how that makes business sense?

A quick way to inherit a lot of engineers

I don't believe this is the reason. Apparently most of the existing team are going. Some key community members and developers' departures are already confirmed.

http://existdissolve.com/2017/09/a-fond-farewell-to-sencha/ https://mitchellsimoens.com/next-chapter-in-2017/ https://twitter.com/dongryphon/status/911278681611370496 https://twitter.com/AnimalNige/status/911152490380451840 https://twitter.com/evantrimboli/status/910988537763323904 https://twitter.com/elmasse/status/906243331541360640 https://twitter.com/LemmonsGrab/status/911703530716618752 https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Sencha-RVW...

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by wnevets » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

As a developer who was forced to use ExtJS, I'm quite glad it fell.

Re: The rise and fall of Ext JS

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Post by lcfcjs2 » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

wnevets wrote: post #9

As a developer who was forced to use ExtJS, I'm quite glad it fell.

I cannot agree more sir.