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It seems as if continuing to address these scalability issues is what will be one of the largest deciders in Meteor's future. It seems as if I near constantly am perusing posts on the framework here, and after going through the Discover Meteor book as well as several small projects that were largely simple prototypes, I've began to have a lot of faith in it for these reasons:

1. It is EASY. Like, really, really easy. I went through Discover Meteor in less than two days, and was easily imagining how to implement other applications after one run through.

2. It is accessible. The free deployment on the .meteor domain, the open source sensibilities, the constant growth. It's got a good snowballs path going on growth.

3. The developers really believe in this product. Everyone on HN has an opinion of the best way to develop software. That said, I feel there is a certain intrinsic respect we share for one another here(MOST of the time ;]) and to ignore developers who are as passionate as these guys building a functional product that clearly has room to grow, we'd be fools to ignore them if we didn't have the time and/or interest (and the interest is hard to not have with what it offers so easily).

This article seems to really further my faith in Meteor. Stopping the "pull and diff" method is a great first step towards making it truly scalable in the sense other frameworks have developed the capability.

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I've been working with the framework almost daily and regarding your comments:

1.) Yep. I've gone from a jQuery-mostly front-end dev to being able to build full blown apps inside of 6 months. Not only that, the apps run really well.

2.) Incredibly. Even without the meteor.com service, it's super easy to deploy using things like Demeteorizer (https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer) which strips down a Meteor app to a raw node.js app that can be deployed anywhere (that supports node, of course) in < 2 minutes.

3.) My favorite part about the framework is that the core devs have meetups/hackathons frequently to talk about progress on development, show off demos of pre-releases, and allow community devs to showcase their own work (if you're curious, I highly recommend checking out the Devshop videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeteorVideos?feature=watch).

Even if it doesn't sound like your bag of chips, at least do what the OP did and check out Discover Meteor: http://discovermeteor.com. It's worth the day or two it will take you to complete.

The core devs are great with how active they are. Some have even reached out to me on twitter when I've mentioned them. It's great to see how much passion they have. What sort of product are you working on with meteor?

Right now I have two available: https://properapp.com and http://whatwhenapp.com.

These look great! Need any help with development? I'm about junior-dev skill level but am actively looking to get into some side projects until I land a job in the industry now that I'm out of the programming bootcamp I was at. I'd ton a bunch of C/Python/Ruby before that, but it really solidified my core software dev skillset and is allowing me to learn at a rapid pace and I'm loving it :)

EASY is almost an understatement. The Meteor team nailed it on this point.

IMO, everyone should take a look at Meteor if for no reason other than to see what's possible.

In terms of value, they pretty much eliminated all of the low value bit moving that consumes a substantial portion of software development hours.