I've been using Ember for nearly two months to build a product. Every day I've been writing Ember code and learning, and making plenty of mistakes. I've loved every minute of it.
To be clear, I was a huge Ember skeptic last year. I've lived through the Microsoft WPF and Silverlight attempts to bring bindings and all that goodness to developers before, and then watch them make it so complex and poorly documented that no one used it, and they died except on banking LOB apps. I worried that the same would be true of Ember.
So I started to give it a crack of the whip, and really use it to build an ambitious (at least for me) product. Yes, it's been tough, and yes at the moment there is an almost Wittgenstein-esque 'throw the ladder away once you have climbed it', but I've never felt so productive with a product that looks and works really well. My conversion came when I finally had something click, was able to start removing bunches of code and lean on Ember to co-ordinate almost everything.
I recently had a run-in with Ember Data that left me really frustrated, and now (today even) I'm re-learning and checking my assumptions and to be honest, I think the problem was my understanding and not Ember Data. That said, it is clearly marked DNUIP, so if you do use it in production, you should be prepared for a bumpy road.
To be clear, I was a huge Ember skeptic last year. I've lived through the Microsoft WPF and Silverlight attempts to bring bindings and all that goodness to developers before, and then watch them make it so complex and poorly documented that no one used it, and they died except on banking LOB apps. I worried that the same would be true of Ember.
So I started to give it a crack of the whip, and really use it to build an ambitious (at least for me) product. Yes, it's been tough, and yes at the moment there is an almost Wittgenstein-esque 'throw the ladder away once you have climbed it', but I've never felt so productive with a product that looks and works really well. My conversion came when I finally had something click, was able to start removing bunches of code and lean on Ember to co-ordinate almost everything.
I recently had a run-in with Ember Data that left me really frustrated, and now (today even) I'm re-learning and checking my assumptions and to be honest, I think the problem was my understanding and not Ember Data. That said, it is clearly marked DNUIP, so if you do use it in production, you should be prepared for a bumpy road.