Well, to your point: I wasn't a Sproutcore user before, and I've read lots of articles on Backbone over the last 3-4 months, and tried to get it working a few times for my projects, without much luck.
That said, I'm not an expert Javascript developer, so maybe I just didn't understand it, or try hard enough. The following story is mine, so YMMV.
Then I saw Ember.js and the Handlebars bindings made simple sense to me, so I cloned the repo, and started playing around with it.
Sure it's not documented but I know how to load the uncompressed source tree in Textmate and look around. The source code itself is very well commented and contains inline examples (although some of them are still Sproutcore-centric, but s/SC/Ember/ and you're mostly good).
I read through the examples, I tinkered, and within a few hours, I had a semi-working version of my project.
So yeah it's young and undocumented, but if anything the ease with which I was able to get up and running on it says a lot for its future potential.
That said, I'm not an expert Javascript developer, so maybe I just didn't understand it, or try hard enough. The following story is mine, so YMMV.
Then I saw Ember.js and the Handlebars bindings made simple sense to me, so I cloned the repo, and started playing around with it.
Sure it's not documented but I know how to load the uncompressed source tree in Textmate and look around. The source code itself is very well commented and contains inline examples (although some of them are still Sproutcore-centric, but s/SC/Ember/ and you're mostly good).
I read through the examples, I tinkered, and within a few hours, I had a semi-working version of my project.
So yeah it's young and undocumented, but if anything the ease with which I was able to get up and running on it says a lot for its future potential.