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Famo.us is now open source

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Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Er, fail? No examples still at link given, and About page also blank, as others mentioned. Would like to try this, but not sure I want to invest the time without seeing some working examples first...

You can see some examples here http://demo.famo.us/ and http://www.codepen.io/befamous/

Re: Famo.us is now open source

#35
post #12

I like Famous but there is so much buzz around it. ThreeJS had CSS and SVG rendered before they even started. Some projects, thanks to VCs gets too much marketing that put main players under their shadows. MeteorJS is the same.

What's the alternative to meteor that's been overshadowed by meteor?

there is none

Derby is the closest thing to it but Meteor has more capabilities and has a better development team plus a lot larger developer community

Re: Famo.us is now open source

#36
The dynamics of which technologies find longevity on the front page is always intriguing. Erlang/OTP 17 was top for a short while, this random javascript framework hitting the top?

How is this more useful than a language/platform rev?

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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post #22
post #20

The about section of the website is completely blank for me in the latest firefox. The docs and the guides pages on famo.us redirect me to a login page. Am I missing something?

No you're not.It's pure hypeware, after 3 years of development and 5+ millions in VC funding they cant set up a simple gh-page with a basic tutorial and exemple on launch day... Big backlash against this framework starts in 3,2,1...

It's not hype. They just want to control the on-boarding of the open source community. The apps at the launch event tonight show a lot of promise for Famo.us being a better framework over Angular for mobile apps.

Re: Famo.us is now open source

#38

The dynamics of which technologies find longevity on the front page is always intriguing. Erlang/OTP 17 was top for a short while, this random javascript framework hitting the top? How is this more useful than a language/platform rev?

It's not a random framework. It's been worked on and talked about for 1-2 years now.
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