How frustrating is the registration + queue to read the docs =(
Famo.us is now open source
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#42Do we have more details on what is famo.us? It says "opinionated approach".. How does it compare to ionicframework.com for instance?
It reminds me a lot of writing Cocoa applications but with javascript instead of Objective C.
I thought that was Cappuccino?
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#43I 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.
It would be unfair to call Meteor's and Famous' marketing "the same". Some facts:
- Nobody knew about Meteor before their HN launch[0]
- Famous appeared at conferences, TechCrunch Disrupt and others with demos of periodic table[1] (which was a ported example from ThreeJS)
- Meteor launched on HN, people loved it, and only then they raised VC and announced it [2]
- Famous announced their funding and sometimes dropped news of various partnerships with "hardware partners" they cannot disclosure. [3]
- Meteor was open-sourced and available with documentation since the launch. They changed their licensing from GPLv2 to MIT later but it all was open[4].
- Famous is open-sourcing their 1-commit repo after 2 years of private beta and now their documentation is in private beta as well.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3824908
[1]: http://gigaom.com/2012/11/25/famous/
[2]: https://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-milli...
[3]: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4656ba2b0a364690c8530bc1...
[4]: https://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/04/20/mit-license-http-requ...
Re: Famo.us is now open source
#44Famo.us announced two things at the launch event tonight:
- github repo is now public
- they're letting in the first 75k devs to famo.us community website tonight
The first 75k devs will get 3 invites.
The website contains what they're calling Famo.us University. Tutorials, forums, IRC, etc.
The explanation for letting in 75k devs at a time is to not overwhelm the community with new devs. They want to be responsive to the first batch and train them so the first batch can support other batches. It's pretty brilliant community management and a sane approach to being able to actually deliver on the hype over time.
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#45Such a strange "launch" presentation; 3d is an obvious center piece and 40 minutes in, zero real demonstrations of the actual tech. No, the simple examples in "famo.us school" don't count. It looked similar jquery easing.
No visuals, just a bunch of beta devs talking about how great everything looks..
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It reminds me a lot of writing Cocoa applications but with javascript instead of Objective C.
I thought that was Cappuccino? http://www.cappuccino-project.org/
I love Cappuccino ! i really wish it'd take off, but the objective-J thing is a bit hard.Why not provide a pure JS interface?
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#47I've been stuck at position 79992 for the past 10 minutes ... I just want to see the docs and guides!
This is a countdown? I haven't seen the number change at all; I was under the impression it was just your fixed user number. Then again mine is lower (758xx) and I only just signed up... I could've really used some hints here.
EDIT: The "mystery" over a lot of this is just making me less interested at this point. Sorry, marketers.
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#48Re: Famo.us is now open source
#49The 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.
Maybe I gloss over most JavaScript framework posts, but first I've seen (and remember) for this one in the last year or so.
My general point is genericX.js seems to get a lot of up votes here relative to other language/framework topics .
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