Hi Tom, it's hard to believe your snarky-sounding italics were intended innocently when you also had such lines as "Mr. Fuchs has apparently never heard of dependency hell." That is clearly meant as a personal jab, one way or another.
That said, it's true what you wrote, that lots of apps grow bigger and need more functionality as they grow. But "need more" is not the same as "use 100% of a library," so that doesn't really refute Thomas' original argument.
You're reacting negatively to insinuations and attitudes that, as far as I can tell, don't exist on a broad scale at all. Most people you meet in the JS community use frameworks and are clearly not anti-framework. It seems to me (based on the tweets from you and @wycats) that you think this whole thing is about Sproutcore. It's not.
Thomas wasn't "insinuating" anything about Sproutcore any more than he was "insinuating" anything about Prototype.js, another monolithic framework.
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Hi Tom, it's hard to believe your snarky-sounding italics were intended innocently when you also had such lines as "Mr. Fuchs has apparently never heard of dependency hell." That is clearly meant as a personal jab, one way or another.
That said, it's true what you wrote, that lots of apps grow bigger and need more functionality as they grow. But "need more" is not the same as "use 100% of a library," so that doesn't really refute Thomas' original argument.
You're reacting negatively to insinuations and attitudes that, as far as I can tell, don't exist on a broad scale at all. Most people you meet in the JS community use frameworks and are clearly not anti-framework. It seems to me (based on the tweets from you and @wycats) that you think this whole thing is about Sproutcore. It's not.
Thomas wasn't "insinuating" anything about Sproutcore any more than he was "insinuating" anything about Prototype.js, another monolithic framework.