Battle of heart vs mind; you win again #Razor :'(
Saturday 07 January 2012 at 7:00 pm
There is nothing worse when mixing business with pleasure or in this case - commercial priorities with open-source - than a battle between the heart and the mind; certainly that's the saddening feeling I have about Spark.
In the beginniing..
We started using #FubuMVC nearly six months ago and have never looked back; being somewhat senior I am fortunate to have the privilege (and confidence of my superiors) to make decisions about technical direction. I can say without hesitation that even if Razor support had existed we'd have pushed forward with Spark anyway and reviewed regularly to validate our decision.
I know this wouldn't hold true for many Software Houses but there is a significant amount of awesomeness at our company and this starts with not only a commitment to personal growth, exposure to technologies, but also a realization that we need to support the OSS community.
D-Day
Cutting a long story short the ultimate review day came for both FubuMVC and the other technologies we'd employed, sitting in the meeting room with the Technical Lead and CTO I wasn't nervous as I already knew where the problems lay and it wasn't with FubuMVC.
On the whole I'd loved every single day using Spark, it had been a breath of fresh air and a wonderful challenge to master a new engine and syntax, it even had me digging through the FubuMVC and Spark internals to understand it's behavior, it is in my humble opinion a winner in all regards but one. Intellisense.
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