Five clicks in and I'm still not sure what it really is/does...
FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
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Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#12Oh boy, yet another JavaScript framework. Colored me unimpressed; angular, backbone, ember, angular 2.0, react, etc. I feel like they're just reinventing the same wheel with a different spin. I wish people would actually spend their time creating a really revolutionary "framework" instead, better yet a programming environment, which would redefine how we write web programs. I'm envisioning a way to create software, w…
React is not a framework though.
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#13A first glance of the docs I see the components aspire to a declarative style (being defined entirely in JSON). I'm wondering though, why not use composition[1] instead of inheritance? I need to take a better look to see how view composition would work in FOAM.. But I can tell from experience with Backbone, that using composition instead of inheritance improves code structure and increases maintainability. If composi…
Actually it's one of their principles:
http://foam-framework.github.io/foam/principles/#composition...
Currently all I see in demos is lonely rendered "f" symbol and slow as hell loading... https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/issues/295
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#14Oh boy, yet another JavaScript framework. Colored me unimpressed; angular, backbone, ember, angular 2.0, react, etc. I feel like they're just reinventing the same wheel with a different spin. I wish people would actually spend their time creating a really revolutionary "framework" instead, better yet a programming environment, which would redefine how we write web programs. I'm envisioning a way to create software, w…
Don't see how that's a bad thing, nobody forces you to use it, and odds are some nice ideas will get validated here and more popular frameworks will adopt them. Think how React influenced the changes in rendering models of Ember, Angular, etc.
Always baffles me how HN crowd can at the same time revere Lean/Agile mindset, and at the same time despise the same principles applied to the tools ecosystem. To me it's obvious that to make progress of any kind multiple attempts are needed. Naturally only few of all those experiments will survive, the thing is nobody knows which ones.
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#15I'm not sure this framework is endorsed by Google. I can't find "by Google" on the home page nor about page.
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#16Oh boy, yet another JavaScript framework. Colored me unimpressed; angular, backbone, ember, angular 2.0, react, etc. I feel like they're just reinventing the same wheel with a different spin. I wish people would actually spend their time creating a really revolutionary "framework" instead, better yet a programming environment, which would redefine how we write web programs. I'm envisioning a way to create software, w…
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Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#17Oh boy, yet another JavaScript framework. Colored me unimpressed; angular, backbone, ember, angular 2.0, react, etc. I feel like they're just reinventing the same wheel with a different spin. I wish people would actually spend their time creating a really revolutionary "framework" instead, better yet a programming environment, which would redefine how we write web programs. I'm envisioning a way to create software, w…
Interesting sentiment, but the problem is that way is awfully abstract. Until computers can write code optimized for both the intent and use case, this remains a far out of reach dream.
It could happen, but I suppose it would need very different architecture compared to CPU.
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#18Oh boy, yet another JavaScript framework. Colored me unimpressed; angular, backbone, ember, angular 2.0, react, etc. I feel like they're just reinventing the same wheel with a different spin. I wish people would actually spend their time creating a really revolutionary "framework" instead, better yet a programming environment, which would redefine how we write web programs. I'm envisioning a way to create software, w…
"I'm envisioning a way to create software, where while having a conversation with another person, we could collaboratively draw some shapes on the screen, connect them, then my program comes to life, evolves, scales up, scales down, etc."
This already exists, its called UML, and UML code generation tools. Wait, Have I just fed the troll?
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#19I'm not sure this framework is endorsed by Google. I can't find "by Google" on the home page nor about page.
Two of the authors work at Google. I think you are right though, this doesn't look like an 'official' framework.
Re: FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers
#20Oh boy, yet another JavaScript framework. Colored me unimpressed; angular, backbone, ember, angular 2.0, react, etc. I feel like they're just reinventing the same wheel with a different spin. I wish people would actually spend their time creating a really revolutionary "framework" instead, better yet a programming environment, which would redefine how we write web programs. I'm envisioning a way to create software, w…
I couldn't really understand what FOAM does in under 2 minutes, so it doesn't meet the bar for me.
You should try React with JSX though. It's a tool like jQuery, but much more sane and structured, and as opposed to frameworks, it becomes more likable the more you use it.