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by civilian 3784 days ago
Wow, there's a ton of jerks here dissing the variety of javascript frameworks here.

Look, the web is a fast evolving platform. Similarly, the best way to understand the tradeoffs a framework makes is write your own own! You probably shouldn't use it in production, but it's a good exercise. And writingcode is so easy to do (just code for awhile!) that we're getting a proliferation of it. This is a good thing!

I just wrote a carousel widget in jquery. Yeah, I know there are 10million carousel widgets I could have downloaded, but I wanted to understand it better so I made it on my own. (And yeah, I know carousels suck, tell my company's marketers that.)

We don't hear complaints when people try building new game engines from scratch. Granted, maybe those aren't posted on HN often?

@minionslave, @untog, @sergiotapia, looking at you guys.

// edit: And looking at the github page, this isn't really a new framework anyway? It's like... the web-dev equivalent of a review paper. He looked at meteor's stack, and swapped a lot of the component pieces. And that's cool and informative.

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Why directly mention people you disagree with? Will that accomplish something?
It might. There is no other good way to directly reply to multiple comments without duplicating the reply. Maybe it will encourage them to join this discussion. It also is less vague than leaving them off.