Something else left out of the Hater's History of Moo. Perhaps general distraction and disillusionment of the core devs brought maintenance to a standstill, but there was a specific major issue: it had been decided that Moo.next would *definitely not* extend natives. This meant that fixing and updating Moo.previous meant maintaining a design that had been explicitly Considered Harmful.
This was very unfortunate in my opinion because many apps (mine, for example) were just getting to the point where we they could safely deprecate support for IE 8 and thus not need the $() wrapper. But just when natives could be more safely extended cross-platform, we knew this wasn't the future. It was a harbinger for me that 2.0, however slowly it was worked on, was going to have a greatly exaggerated precedence over 1.x. So at this point in time 1.x is basically dead twice over -- once on the design level and once on the real-world maintenance level. The admonition "why aren't you contributing" is doubly ridiculous because not only are PRs not being pulled, the underlying design of that repo has been declared not just "old" but "wrong." Core devs themselves have said a fork is the only future for 1.x. As I explicitly said in my first e-mail, it is not jQuery's fault, nor Rey Bango's fault, that MooTools is where it is. Everything I say about jQuery is set in the context of the software industry as a whole, which I have been in for a very long time. I have seen OS/2 die, NetWare, Delphi, Cold Fusion -- and tiny little boutique software like my beloved Fastream Proxy Server -- all of which could be easily debated as better technology against the "winners" of their time. But just as I blame unsuccessful, brilliant musicians for the bad moves they made in their career -- even the initial "bad move" of thinking they'd ever have wide appeal even if everything else went right -- I'm not going to say that pop stars make better music. -- S. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MooTools Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
