The State Of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong
The State Of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong
Back in 2014, LWN looked at the Meteor web
application framework. Now, Meteor's developers are contemplating
why it failed to take over the world. "New developers love how
easy it is to get started with it, but can get discouraged when they start
struggling with more complex apps. And purely from a financial standpoint,
it’s hard to build a sustainable business on the back of new developers
hacking on smaller apps. On the other hand, many of the more experienced
developers who’d be able to handle (and help solve) Meteor’s trickier
challenges are turned off by its all-in-one approach, and never even give
it a chance in the first place.
" They promise the imminent
unveiling of a new approach that is going to address these problems.