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by ffn 3449 days ago
> Joining LinkedIn

Great, I'm glad Ember is gaining more traction in enterprise... but what does this mean for things like Fastboot, Ember 3.0, glimmer 2.0, ember-cli 3.0, and the whole cast of in-room-elephants such as ember-redux, flexi, ember-data, vr, etc.?
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joshhart 3449 days ago
The mobile-web version of LinkedIn and the new website are built in Ember. We already use Glimmer 2.0 because we care about web performance. So we care deeply about many of the things you mentioned.

Source: I'm the lead eng for our consumer group

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smartbit 3448 days ago
Just out of curiosity I logged into the mobile site. First I was greeted with "your browser is not supported". After I logged in, I found a website full of nonsense news, mixed with advertisements. Not a place I would go to for any meaningful reason.

My personal conclusion: LinkedIn is a lame duck. The previous owners sold it at the right moment to Microsoft.

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ggregoire 3449 days ago
> I'm glad Ember is gaining more traction in enterprise

Isn't Ember mostly used in enterprise?

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jrowley 3449 days ago
Apple Music was built in Ember for example.

http://builtwithember.io/featured/2015/07/04/apple-music/

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bsimpson 3449 days ago
Ember is the spiritual successor to Sproutcore, which powered many of Apple's early web apps.
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r0m4n0 3449 days ago
I went through a tech interview for iCloud.com and I can confirm sproutcore there as well (as of 2017)
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luketheobscure 3448 days ago
I don't think there's any "in-room elephants":

- Glimmer 2: Shipped

- Ember/CLI 3.x: Haven't heard anything, but there's not really any features that have been pushed to those versions that I know of. Glimmer 2 was the big roadblock for routable components, which is the feature we're most waiting for.

- Ember Redux: Was not particularly liked by a lot of the core team (from an API perspective), but the ideas it represented were. They're exploring ways to implement this in Ember.

- Ember Data: LinkedIn hired "runspired" and tasked him with improving Ember Data performance. His work will ship with the next version (last version had his initial work which revolved mostly around tooling)

- Flexi: Was never really a core Ember project, and I don't think it was widely adopted. It was a runspired thing, and I think he's being kept busy on other stuff (core projects and smoke & mirrors)

I don't use fastboot so I can't comment there, but I see new versions coming out regularly. I also don't know what "vr" refers to.

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zackthehuman 3449 days ago
Fastboot is still being actively worked on. Glimmer 2 is used in production by LinkedIn and others, and they continue to work on it with other Ember contributors. In fact, almost all of the things you listed are still being worked on by their respective contributors and I can confirm because I know this first-hand.
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