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by maxklein 6490 days ago
I've kept away from commenting on this one, because I can't tell. But let me let my thoughts out:

Frameworks are a tough thing to do as a business. People tend to flock to use mostly one. Learning a framework is a big decision, and a big time and money investment. A framework needs to be compelling to make anybody want to use it for serious stuff.

The key motivators are default, money and laziness. Let me give you an example:

- I know MFC because it's the default framework on Visual Studio - I use Django because it allows me to be lazier than if I use PHP. Also, I figure my python knowledge may make me money in the future - I use jquery because the availability of plugins means that I don't need to write those stuff myself - I plan to learn to use the iPhone SDK because there is money there

I don't want to use Lisp or Fortran or any of those smaller languages/frameworks because they offer me nothing.

I would only use your framework if it fulfilled on one of the criteria above. Right now, it's really not clear. Will it make my development work faster? Will the resulting applications be better? I can't tell, so instead of wasting 2 weeks finding out, I'd rather just close the page.