Whatever they are, they suck. Actually what sucks is not them specifically, but the reason because they exist.
Ferro makes the whole process more natural, at least.
Ferro makes the whole process more natural, at least.
From an architecture standpoint, this is very similar to building a tree of Backbone views + a few abstractions. Writing OO code instead of a markup language (JSX/HTML) has few intrinsic benefits besides “feels familiar to me”. And it goes head on against the resurgence of functional programming, reactive UI and declarative code. You need much more than “they suck” if you want to profess that your system is better.
Not to say this isn’t worth exploring, but the bold and dismissive claims detract a lot from the project’s idea.
Not sure if you thought I am the project creator or if you were just generally speaking. Anyway, if you wanted to know more about the rationale behind this project, you could address author's comment here: