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It's free because it's bad. https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/ab729e7cd6ee78f6/78049664b10416ec https://groups.google.com/

• dolinsky 16y ago
  Agreed. The demos on their own website left me very unimpressed. Simple things like the back button on my Droid X taking me out of the app and back to their /demo/ page after I had performed a click action or two.
• mhd 16y ago
  That's from David Mark, who's on some kind of vendetta against any JavaScript library but his own. Came up here on HN quite often… (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993398 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993398 ) Now, this is where it gets a bit weird: http://davidmarkfans.wordpress.com/ http://davidmarkfans.wordpress.com/
  • bobds 16y ago
    I don't care much for the style of David Mark's rhetoric, but he is not only one to criticize Sencha in that thread. While David doesn't manage to get his point across very effectively, let's consider some of popular JS libraries: Prototype.js: Messes with the prototype of all your objects, that can't be good. ExtJS: Big enterprisey clusterfuck, though the widgets look pretty good. jQuery: I do use jQuery but last time I browsed through its source I was appalled by all the dirty hacks. The plugin situation is an unmaintanable clusterfuck. The UI library is still lacking after years of development. I hope the popularity of node.js will drive the development of new and better JS libraries, because our current situation is unimpressive.