Meteor 0.5.7 released: major scaling update, new DDP version, EJSON

I got my first taste of Meteor at a meetup in NYC on Tuesday night. I hacked something together with no experience in about 30 minutes that would be a pain to write in anything else, and completely trivial to write in Meteor. In fact I didn't bother to read the documentation. The app is a shared grocery list: <a href="http://www.teamgrocery.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.teamgrocery.com/</a><p>The app never deletes anything, and I suppose a grocery list shared among all HN users should get overwhelmed really quickly :)<p>I can't remember the last time I have had so much fun playing with a new framework. Meteor is going to be my goto technology for hackathons/prototypes.

There's no place except on HN where Meteor gets regular attention, upvotes and always the same fan posts (i.e., "Meteor is going to be my goto technology", "The Meteor guys are moving fast").<p>Guys, this is all so obvious.<p>EDIT: downvoting won't help, people aren't that stupid, $11M funding and sponsored posts are no reason to use any framework

As a developer using meteor, most of the changelog is a bunch of technical "jumbo humbo" to me. However, the full release notes said something about "performance" for some day to day operation, and that's all I need to hear.<p>I must note that meteor does seems to excel at being absurdly trivial to get things done. It also isn't quite of a heavyweight to learn as compared to other frameworks.<p>(I am working on a time tracking app that's coming rather nicely)

We just got Meteor compiling on Pogoapp (using a buildpack which uses meteor's git/master, so incorporates these updates[1]), and I booted up open source demo apps whipped up by a couple London developers after a chat in #meteor IRC:<p><a href="https://github.com/alanshaw/meteor-blackboard" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alanshaw/meteor-blackboard</a><p><a href="https://github.com/olizilla/goto-meteor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/olizilla/goto-meteor</a><p>here's live demos (you can use zoom in both):<p><a href="http://blackboard.pogoapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://blackboard.pogoapp.com</a><p><a href="http://meteor-goto.pogoapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://meteor-goto.pogoapp.com/</a><p>Be sure to check go take a look at the code, or lack thereof - really impressive stuff. Since looking just a few months ago, the whole meteor ecosystem seems to have expanded and matured at a pretty incredible clip.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite</a>

So can someone tell me what the monetization scheme is for Meteor and other frameworks like it? Is there one? Or is this purely for the joy of the code? Seriously...

For folks who'd like to try out Meteor in the browser without any local installs, we just wrote a blog post on how you can do so on Action.IO: <a href="http://blog.action.io/2013/02/21/build-meteor-apps-in-the-browser-with-actionio-and-mongolab.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.action.io/2013/02/21/build-meteor-apps-in-the-br...</a><p>(Disclosure: I'm one of the guys working on action.io - we're private beta now but sending out invites at a pretty fast clip)

The Meteor guys are moving fast. This is awesome. I can't wait until all the current methods of creating web apps are obsolete.

Interesting to read such polar views about Meteor.<p>At Wigwamm, we wanted to build a user experience that was simple. A real-time auction and an auction catalogue full of full screen photographs.<p>We discussed at length whether Meteor would allow us to do everything we needed. The conclusion was interesting: if it's not simple, if doing through Meteor is too hard, we probably don't want/need to do it.<p>For us, it's nice to work with technology that genuinely pushes boundaries.<p>Little plug: we're London UK based, so if you're local, love building products that help people and want to build in pure JavaScript/Meteor, please get in touch (@WigwammHQ on twitter)

If Meteorite is the Package Manager for Meteor, why are the two not in sync? E.g. like npm for node?