On Monday 29 September 2014 10:58:05 Radu Cotescu wrote: > Hi Oliver, Hi Radu,
> As Bertrand said in his reply in this thread, we haven't seen much interest > in Sightly beyond Sling / AEM users. While there are two plugins that hint > at Sling specifics (data-sly-resource / data-sly-include) we actually think > that these functionalities exist in various other web frameworks, under > different names: > > * data-sly-resource merely includes a resource from somewhere in your web > app > * data-sly-include provides a way to render a part of the output with a > different view / controller combo in the context of the current request > > If in the future we see the interest of Sightly increasing outside of the > Sling / AEM community we can always start a new project under the ASF > umbrella and then provide a bridge for Sling. > > The specification will be hosted at > https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud in a few days. > > BTW, Brackets is an open-source code editor so it has nothing to do with > Sightly, except for the fact that we've also developed an extension for it > to ease web app development with Sightly in AEM. sure, Brackets and Topcoat are just examples for Adobe hosting open source web projects on top level. Regards, O. > Cheers, > Radu > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Lietz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good to see one more modern alternative to JSP and ESP, welcome Sightly! > > > > The open-sourcing is really an important step in the right direction, but > > I think there are better places for Sightly as template language. > > Do not tie Sightly to close to Sling (AEM) when it could also be useful > > for others in different projects and environments and prevent its > > proliferation unnecessarily. > > > > A templating language/engine like Sightly could reach momentum like > > Angular, > > Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Markdown or Brackets. > > > > Adobe has already some places where they host successful open-source web- > > related projects, e.g.: > > http://html.adobe.com/opensource/ > > https://github.com/adobe > > https://github.com/adobe-webplatform > > http://brackets.io > > http://topcoat.io > > > > So +1 for hosting the integration but -1 for hosting the language > > implementation. Which clearly means +1 for Sightly in general.
