to be fair, the work he's doing through lodash is sterling (npm spam and all, cough :) and allows mootoolers the chance to move on by providing a very viable utility library that covers all mootools type extensions around array, object and function. add your own class, ajax, string (which he's doing soon), number and obviously DOM and suddenly life without mootools becomes quite bearable. if anything, people on this list may also want to contribute to lodash to get maximum feature parity with what we had out of the box with mootools.
certainly not his fault or Microsoft's, for that matter, that we failed. in fact, it could be argued that mootools did not fail at all but rather helped shape javascript into a better language and has now become redundant. modern browsers just don't need that much sugar and cross browser shims these days work around much smaller problems than they used to. On Wednesday, December 25, 2013, Sanford Whiteman wrote: > > I've been around before you and will be around long after you lose > > interest in going tit for tat in this mailing thread. > > I'll grant that you can sustain your present level of service to the > MooTools user community for a very long time: I see a grand total of > one (1) message from you to this list from 2009-2012. Keep up the good > lurk! > > And I see now that you work for Microsoft! (Did you think I knew that > and was "trolling" you knowing you would ride for them no matter > what?) Your reactions sounded off-kilter before, but now they make > sense. You work for the major player that started bundling jQuery in > 2008 and hired a jQuery hero as an "evangelist" in 2009 -- well before > anyone could say MooTools fell behind -- so of course you'd want to > publicly frame those actions as merely reactive, rather than shrewd > moves and later market drivers. That the owners of the MooTools code > are 100.00% to blame and *no other factor other than mismanagement* > came into play rings of the extreme positions you hear in antitrust > suits. [Don't bother, I'll fill in your denial myself.] > > Anyway, congrats on the win. Nothing for you to defend here, just a > bunch of losers carrying a torch. > > -- 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] <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Dimitar Christoff "JavaScript is to JAVA what hamster is to ham" @D_mitar - https://github.com/DimitarChristoff -- --- 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.
