[gasping]

Bold, and beautiful!! Quick everyone, scrap all your existing frameworks and jump on the flavor of the week!

Seriously though, I think it's borderline negligent to contribute any kind of hype to new javascript frameworks considering they are spraying out into the ecosystem like a broken fire hydrant. New javascript frameworks should be met with extreme skepticism, if not indifference, if we want this industry to be anything more than a joke.

[Cshelton]

Isn't that progress though? How else would we figure out a better way to do things if not to see how others are doing it. Many times a framework is, 'Here is how we've been doing things on our team, check it out! It might be useful to you as well."

Then others pick up on those ideas and so on and so forth. They don't simply sit there and say.."oh well...we should make our own framework because we don't like the ones that exist and want to make this industry incredibly difficult." No, most frameworks that have been released, especially ones that have been worked on by many people, have a purpose...a way of doing things different, that those team members like. If you don't like the way they have come up with...you don't have to use it. That's the beauty of it. There are many ways to accomplish front end development. Even in my case, if I don't want to use it ever, it is still benificial to see how others are doing things because you can take bits and pieces of their ideas and use them. Id' like to see more well thought out frameworks.

This "we have too many frameworks" crowd always post the same comments every time a framework is announced. It's becoming tiring hearing from you guys. Nobody is forcing you to use a framework... It's literally the same as saying.."we like how we did things 5 years ago, and we never want to change."

Welcome to the wild, wild, west of web innovation. If you don't like constant change, this may not be for you.

Pro Tip: If you learn JavaScript first and not a framework, adopting new frameworks can be done very fast. I find most of the people who post and cry about there being a new framework are the ones who don't really know JavaScript.

[narrowrail]

It looks like this framework goes back ~3 years. So, why would you consider it the 'flavor of the week'? Because someone posted it to HN? That doesn't seem to be much of a threshold. Also, it looks like this framework could be of use in other languages aside from javascript.

[kgr]

It was started in 2011, and can be used to target any language. It was first used to generate C++ and JS code in Chrome in early 2012. It is a Framework written in JS, not specifically a JS Framework.

I lead the FOAM project at Google.

[ben336]

It was just publicly announced this week.