I have a rather large production Ember app that has never used ember-data. I'm glad ember-data is not part of the core, because the split has forced Ember to be

I have a rather large production Ember app that has never used ember-data. I'm glad ember-data is not part of the core, because the split has forced Ember to be cleanly modular, and easy to plug into the backend of your choice. I agree that Ember will be more attractive to new learners once ember-data is fully-baked, but ember-data is actually very ambitious and quite separate from the core competency of what ember.js does.