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by alexbardas 4427 days ago
It's hard for me to make more comments here. I don't know your tech background and also how much experience you have with frontend or any kind of frameworks.

Unfortunately, you rush to make conclusions. It's my first post on medium (others will come for sure), but why this have to be the first article posted, ever?

About the rewrite: you have x features in backbone. Then you rewrite all the x features in angular and you compare the results.

e.g. https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/09/dropbox-dives-into-coffeesc...

Dropbox rewrote its javascript in coffeescript and saw a LOC improvement. They had a code in js and rewrote it in coffee. We had it in backbone and rewrote it in angular. I'll probably provide more details (with code and so on) in next blog posts, but I wanted to keep this one shorter, because it's not about how we implemented it, but more about the conclusions we reached.

In the end, it doesn't matter how many LOC you have in a certain language, framework, etc. It's more about the productivity and the quality. It worked for us very well in both cases, and I think this is the final idea.

I'm sorry that you bring the discussion to a personal level, again. I'm open for suggestions and would like to make further articles "more relevant" and share better content. If you think you can help me with this and with one suggestion or two, please get in touch.

Have a nice day!