This is a bit irrational, but it nags me every time the occasional Meteor post shows up here - it seems to always get a lot of upvotes and very few comments:<p>The Meteor blog goes back (under a different name) almost two years, that huge announcement thread is from 490 days ago, and they got VC funding over a year ago.<p>I remember being pretty excited at the time but somehow this long wait for a 1.0 has taken the wind out of my sails. I don't mean to diminish all their hard work, and to be fair, there are frequent signs of life, but somehow it no longer captures the imagination. Am I the only one?
I feel that Meteor is awesome and has quite a bit of potential, but why stray from npm, which is one of those things that is actually awesome about node? I really wish Meteor would use npm. Is there some technical reason they don't?
I've been a little more impressed with Derby (<a href="http://derbyjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://derbyjs.com/</a>) than Meteor, as it's based on similar concepts, but plays well with the rest of the Node/JS ecosystem (for example, it uses npm), has server-side rendering of page content, and can scale to multiple servers.<p>I have to admit my only hands-on experience so far has been a little tinkering, though. Who's actually written stuff with Meteor, Derby and/or similar frameworks, and what were your thoughts?