Saturday, December 28, 2013

Durandal (JS) Kickstarter

Herding Code 182: Durandal Kickstarter with Rob Eisenberg:

How to fund development of a tool that competes with Google's AngularJS?
One option is by "crowd funding" @ Kikstarter, selling video training...

Durandal 2014 by Rob Eisenberg — Kickstarter
(for funding one year development, pledged of $95,000 goal)

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Compare Durandal to Angular, Not Knockout to Angular | John Papa
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Since Durandal is based on MVVM pattern (instead of MVC used by Angular)
it could be a better match for Microsoft platform (WPF is based on MVVM).
It is also using KnockoutJS created by Steve Sanderson from ASP.NET team.

Microsoft could "adopt" Durandal (and maybe hire its developer),
and create a reasonable alternative to Angular.
Based on recent actions, it is more likely that it may be adopted and supported
as jQuery is in VisualStudio, and Microsoft may sponsor some of the development...

Creating a popular class for PluralSight could be more profitable than Kickstarter...
Angular classes are currently #1 and #2 on PluralSight, and in used in 4 out of top 10...




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