A fine post, Jonathon, in every regard. I could not agree more.
Geoff
On 20/05/2008, at 9:41 AM, Jonathan Locke wrote:
I was just googling around the Internet for people with Wicket
problems and I
ran across this highly obnoxious post and felt I should comment.
If the research was real, the poster would have linked to it. In fact,
nobody has any real basis short of a widespread statistical survey for
assessing the number of users of open source frameworks. Since I
highly
doubt anyone cares enough to do such an expensive survey, we can
safely
assume the poster is not only an anti-social ass but also a liar.
And he is
certainly not a friend of the Wicket or open source communities, as
posts
like this are damaging to everyone involved. In case I'm not making
this
clear enough "Rob Smeets": KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!
Open-source technologies should not be thought of as some kind of
popularity
contest. There are great technologies that languish in relative
obscurity
and mediocre ones that everyone seems to use. It is also objectively a
healthy thing to have good alternatives as we don't live in a
one-size-fits-all world. Tapestry is a solid framework with a long
history,
lots of users and plenty of development activity. I don't think
Wicket or
anything else will kill it and there's no reason to think it won't
continue
to flourish. Certainly it has been innovative for many years and is
a cut
above most of the rest... and honestly anything that helps to put a
nail in
the coffin of Struts is good for Java.
Best,
Jonathan Locke, Founder of Wicket
Rob Smeets wrote:
Hi guys,
I don't mean to cause any depression or controversy but I saw this
research
results and thought you might want to know. Because this makes me
worry
about the future of Tapestry.
According to the research, Tapestry users declined drastically by
45% for
the first time in 3 years. I was very surprised because of the hype
and
sound bytes from Howard and co. surrounding Tapestry 5. I
understand users
of Wicket grew by 55% whereas GWT grew by 85%. According to the
source,
Adobe Flex users grew by 91% and that seems huge to me but warrants
it of
course. Even Howard admits Flex is one of the best.
I think I agree with this research just by looking at the traffic
here on
the Tapestry list as well as responses on Howard's blog site on all
topics
regarding Tapestry.
What do you think?
Yours friendly,
Rob
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