Meteor Raises $11.2M from Andreessen Horowitz
<i>No matter what else happens in the world, the core team will be able to focus entirely on Meteor for several years, without taking on consulting work or trying to create some other application on top of Meteor to sell</i><p>Does that raise any red flags for anybody?<p>Do development frameworks built for their own sake ever really work in the wild?<p>I think of successful ways to build web apps, and the names that spring to mind are rails, django, php, etc. that evolved by developers who were using them to build stuff.  In some cases (rails, django especially), they were the side product of a single application.<p>I think of overarchitected nightmares such as Fusebox and some of the magic frameworks that would be Meteor's competition, and they tend to share the quality of having been built as the Ultimate Solution to Everybody's problem (with the conspicuous exception of the developers themselves, who aren't actually dogfooding it for anything).<p>To be clear, I'm impressed by Meteor and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.  But it makes me a bit uncomfortable to see a declaration like "we're <i>definitely</i> not going to try building anything with it!" tacked onto their funding announcement.