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Re: Famo.us is now open source

#51

Post by taskstrike » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:08 AM UTC

Why is there a line for material that is openly accessible in github? This seems stupid.

All their audience are developers who can basically get it off of github.

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by username223 » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:21 AM UTC

simple10 wrote: post #37

camus2 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> control the on-boarding of the open source community.

Your spam-bot needs work; real humans don't emit things like this.

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by Andrex » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:26 AM UTC

I hate to be "that guy," but what is Famous? http://famo.us doesn't say anything on the index, and the About page is broken. Is it just a library? Toolchain? A real product?

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by scolfax » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:32 AM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #53

I hate to be "that guy," but what is Famous? http://famo.us doesn't say anything on the index, and the About page is broken. Is it just a library? Toolchain? A real product?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGtHhAfe8w

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by joeblau » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:35 AM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #53

I hate to be "that guy," but what is Famous? http://famo.us doesn't say anything on the index, and the About page is broken. Is it just a library? Toolchain? A real product?

It's a platform that is supposed to solve the problem that HTML5 promised by subverting the DOM with a custom rendering engine (A port of the Unity Engine to JavaScript). It basically allows you to run a web app at native app performance, cross platform all in your web browser.

Demos - http://demo.famo.us/

Codepen Examples - http://www.codepen.io/befamous/

edit: Also found this - http://famo.us/about

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by joeblau » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:39 AM UTC

aantix wrote: post #45

Such 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..

Here are a few links to some demos and some code examples on Code Pen.

Demos: http://demo.famo.us/

Codepen: http://www.codepen.io/befamous/

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by zo1 » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:42 AM UTC

vqc wrote: post #15

cnp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that Tweetus demo is SO clunky, like a bad Flash site :/

what browser are you using?

So famous is only for fast javascript browsers? That says it all... damn #hipstercoders.

And yes, it works fast on chrome, dog slow on Firefox. Since when did we decide to collectively ignore Firefox users because we want to use some fancy shmancy JS framework so we can write our code using an "opinionated" approach? And I quote "opinionated" as that is precisely how the readme describes the "famou.us" way of building "rich, fast web applications".

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by Tango3 » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:42 AM UTC

simple10 wrote: post #44

Famo.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 t…

I think they are only letting 500 people in. There are 75k on the list. I signed up 2 years ago and I am number 74606. Looks like it will be at least a few months till I can look at the documentation

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by zoomerang » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:49 AM UTC

simple10 wrote: post #37

camus2 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As I understand it Famo.us and Angular run at a completely different level of abstraction, doing different things, and targeting different problems?

Re: Famo.us is now open source

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Post by zoomerang » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 5:53 AM UTC

XaspR8d wrote: post #47

trekforever wrote: post #24

I'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.

> EDIT: The "mystery" over a lot of this is just making me less interested at this point. Sorry, marketers.

Yeah it's really starting to like this is more of a marketing company than a technology company, trying to milk some publicity but doing a really bad job of it.