alexbardas
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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Both products are really good, but Github needs to realise that they have to be more open and listen more to their users.
There is an opportunity for Gitlab here and I'm happy that they decided to make this announcement.
The community is the actual winner of this healthy competition.
Comment · 11 years ago
Any idea what happened to breach? It looked very promising when it was first announced, but I can see there hasn't been any contribution for more than 6 months.
Comment · 11 years ago
Great and very useful plugin. Good job!
Comment · 12 years ago
Go has a much better runtime system than Python (can spawn lots of green threads in parallel using goroutines), but it's also broken in so many ways (e.g.: type system).
Comment · 12 years ago
It's more or less a matter of time until everything will be migrated to go. Since it has better performance and works good for them, there's no point not to do it.
Comment · 12 years ago
Makes a lot of sense to me, Firefox is an excellent browser. I hope it will keep its independence though.
Comment · 12 years ago
I've also added a Later Edit (LE) in the article and I hope some things are clear now.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's hard for me to make more comments here. I don't know your tech background and also how much experience you have with frontend or any kind of frameworks.
Unfortunately, you rush to make conclusions. It's my first post on medium (others will come for sure), but why this have to be the first article posted, ever?
About the rewrite: you have x features in backbone. Then you rewrite all the x features in angular and you compare the results.
e.g. https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/09/dropbox-dives-into-coffeesc...
Dropbox rewrote its javascript in coffeescript and saw a LOC improvement. They had a code in js and rewrote it in coffee. We had it in backbone and rewrote it in angular. I'll probably provide more details (with code and so on) in next blog posts, but I wanted to keep this one shorter, because it's not about how we implemented it, but more about the conclusions we reached.
In the end, it doesn't matter how many LOC you have in a certain language, framework, etc. It's more about the productivity and the quality. It worked for us very well in both cases, and I think this is the final idea.
I'm sorry that you bring the discussion to a personal level, again. I'm open for suggestions and would like to make further articles "more relevant" and share better content. If you think you can help me with this and with one suggestion or two, please get in touch.
Have a nice day!
Comment · 12 years ago
In angular you'd never need the line with className, so you'd end up with even less code, because of its declarative style.
A good reading when thinking that's necessary to bind dom elements, events, etc is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14994391/how-do-i-think-i...
Comment · 12 years ago
If you're really interested in Avira and its products, it's up to you to take a look into this project from time to time and you may change your impression.
I added certain links in the article (e.g. http://www.funnyant.com/), where the features of all frameworks are discussed and compared. Read it and you may understand the advantages. I'm sorry that you don't consider that a community driven project, managed by top talent from Google is not a good enough reason to invest some time into a framework.
I explained how we achieved the results: we rewrote it. The facts are pretty relevant and they may help other teams.
I will craft toy examples in next articles, so it's best to follow me if you really are that interested and would like to see more examples.
You can find more about velocity here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_(software_development) .
I'm sorry that you brought it to a personal level in the end, this explains a lot. Instead, I hope you have a good day and don't forget to follow me to see how well I code :).
Comment · 12 years ago
It's a tech post, not an avira commercial. Maybe it will help someone make a good decision when choosing a js framework, based on real experience and facts.
You can read more about the product here http://www.avira.com/en/avira-online-essentials
Please tell me more about the fallacies you see in the article.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think that it may be simpler to learn than both angular and ember.
Unfortunately, given the fact that it's missing 2 way data binding and it's not declarative, you end up with lots of boilerplate code and in the end you invest more time in writing your backbone application than in learning angular and writing the application in it.
To be honest, I'd only start a new project in angular or ember because they are extremely productive frameworks. Backbone was great more than 2 years ago.
I ended up having to pay 400$ more for delivery + VAT for a laptop (didn't know about the VAT tax at that time). Very good performance, but rather mediocre quality (1 usb port is completely unusable).