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Getting started with Ember is a lot harder than your comment admits. I tried Ember recently and there was still a lot of stuff that was broken including the data model. That would make building a non-trivial app hard.


@atomical, the link to trek's article above puts it more succintly:

Ember applications start out with a complexity rating of 4/10 but never get much higher than 6/10, regardless of how sophisticated your application becomes. Backbone starts out at 1/10 but complexity grows linearly. This is a natural side effect of the types of applications the two frameworks were specifically created for.


What I'm investigating Backbone/Ember/whatever for is a semi-embedded device that will ship with a web interface, so some semblance of stability is a major plus.


As we speak it is used in production by many companies. Click this link to see them all:

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/wiki/Production-Deployme...

Shopitome is a very fresh deployment using emberjs based on this tweet sent today:

http://twitter.com/inkredabull/status/268017623428657153

http://www.shopittome.com/threads/signup

A few non trivial companies using emberjs in production are:

www.zendesk.com

http://www.squareup.com/

http://livingsocial.com/

http://www.groupon.com

http://www.desk.com/

http://basho.com/

http://travis-ci.org/

http://www.gooddata.com/


Web production != shipping on devices production. You can very easily ship updates to the former whereas the latter is tricky. It means we need to be careful with everything we choose.




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