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I started out working on a fairly complex dynamic form builder for the research group I work for. They needed a way to build up forms to administer to possible research subjects. The rest of the app was using pieces from jquery-ui so I stuck with that and added backbone.js to handle more of the complex interactive tasks. All of it was written in coffee-script.

Early on this approach worked fine and for simple CRUD stuff it's not too bad but as the researchers wanted more and more options it got difficult to sync everything; dom interactions, model data and server data. I started to investigate SproutCore and thought "This object model with bindings is just what I need!"

So, I'd really like to disagree with your comment, but I can't. The reason is because I can't integrate SproutCore with anything else that's been written for our app. I can't even get access to some of SproutCore's pieces to try and integrate it. The entire view part of our app would have to be re-written using SproutCore to use the features and that isn't viable right now.

As it stands, I'd really like to use SproutCore. There are some great ideas there and I think that some of my projects would really benefit from their projects. But right now, backbone.js + jquery-ui has hit the sweet spot of easy to get up and running and looks good. The researchers are really happy with what I've got done and I'm able to move on to other problems.