Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
I wanted to use Ember, and I started going down that road, but I just didn't click with it. I didn't progress past the tutorial! I can't remember what exactly I didn't get working, but I just felt very lost and overwhelmed, and that was spending a couple of days reading around online, looking at the code and examples.*<p>I switched to Backbone and got going right away, in half a day of reading the docs and watching a couple of peepcode videos and I was off and didn't look back.<p>Maybe the Ember docs have improved in the last couple of months but at the time it was just a non-starter for me.<p>edit: I believe the issue was around Ember Data/REST. Out of the box it didn't support polling data on a REST interface, which seemed absolutely critical/fundamental to a JS framework. I found a plugin I believe called Ember Data, but documentation was very sparse and I couldn't even get a simple example going. This is going on memory so this could be slightly wrong or different today.