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> <snip> but once you get up and going (...) </snip>

See, that's the problem. How do you get to "up and going" if the docs are sparse?

Just to be clear, this is not meant as a criticism of Ember, just a general observation that I have made time and time again when looking at new projects and reading comments saying things like "yes, X is not documented and hard to get into but once you get up and going it's all roses"



I can tell you that Tomhuda have been working really hard on docs for the last week or so. Ember's getting close to an actual 1.0 release, and docs are a big deal. For instance, they entirely re-wrote the router recently, so if docs had been written before, they'd be out of date anyway.

Not saying it hasn't been bad historically, just that it's getting better and will be good in the future.


Download all the examples and reverse engineer. That's what I did and I'm glad I did it because I'm loving Ember.




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