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I wonder how much of that is "The JS universe just moves too damn quickly!" vs "Nobody wants Ember".

Seems like wycats is interested renewing his Ember work as of late.





The JS universe moved quickly for about two years. The most popular frameworks at this point have been around since that time, with a few oddball upstarts. They've undergone some big changes, but are at the core the same concepts.

I recall evaluating Ember right around the time they switched from their last pretelease of I think 1.0 and suddenly all the documentation was either gone or out of date and not applicable. I ended up going with AngularJS (1.23 maybe?) and didn't look back until I went to work somewhere that used ember exclusively. It was far less pleasant to use than anything else I had been using up to that point except maybe Backbone.

There's been a few additions to the JS core APIs like webgpu and a few others, but all of them have been extremely niche. There's not much that's been added since 2016 or so that you couldn't pick up in a heartbeat, so it really boils down to the frameworks themselves. Ember lost to AngularJS, then Angular and React.




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