Alexei@Nitobi

Brian brought this post to my attention [read]. The general story (as I understand it) is this:

One of the MooTools developers, a guy named Olmo, gave a brief talk on the framework, during which he compared it to JQuery, Prototype, and others. This talk was taped, and you can watch it [here]. So in his talk he kindof says he doesn’t really look at the other frameworks that much because he doesn’t have time or whatever.. and he’s more interested in MooTools.. fair enough.

At any rate, he makes some untrue statements about JQuery in particular.. probably out of general not-knowingness, and does a little trashtalking. This got noticed.. some guys complained, and then #@$& hit the fan. Olmo’s been ousted from the Mootools dev team subsequently.. and got totally slammed in the process (in a very public way).

So here’s my take. I think some sort of an apology or correction was definitely in order. It should have come from Olmo, not Valerio. And if Valerio had to do it because Olmo wouldn’t, then I sortof think it’s interesting he slammed Olmo as bad as he did.. I mean this isn’t the first time there’s been a little inter-framework trashtalking. I sortof think when that happens we should just dust ourselves off and keep going. Besides, with respect to Resig, jQuery and all them who I totally respect too, what he said wasn’t really even that bad – not bad enough to get canned anyway.

Can’t we all just get along?

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