It's a shame to see someone who has been so passionate for a product reach this level of frustration but it feels like there's a lot of blaming 'everything that's wrong with the industry' for lack of uptake. If no-one is taking up on your offering, no matter how cool it is, then you need to look at what you can do to entice people in that you aren't already.
I've been back to look at cappuccino since the 280-slides first went up, and the get people hooked documentation has always been severely lacking (which is the case with a lot of projects, but it makes some of the complaints about peoples efforts to learn stick out
Their docs have long had, to my mind, a tone of "it's just like objective-c, which is easy, so learn some of that and you'll be fine" [1]
It does have pretty complete API docs, but they're not a lot of use without much deeper examples given than the few they have on the site.
When it comes to having thrown out years of software engineering know-how I think there's possibly something to that, and it is currently being picked up on in more recent frameworks but perhaps, as is being highlighted by things like backbone and angular, trying to shoe-horn dogmatic desktop software patterns like MVC into building apps for a relatively young platform like the browser is only a organisational stop-gap on the way to better, more suitable patterns that are still to come.
I've been back to look at cappuccino since the 280-slides first went up, and the get people hooked documentation has always been severely lacking (which is the case with a lot of projects, but it makes some of the complaints about peoples efforts to learn stick out Their docs have long had, to my mind, a tone of "it's just like objective-c, which is easy, so learn some of that and you'll be fine" [1] It does have pretty complete API docs, but they're not a lot of use without much deeper examples given than the few they have on the site.
When it comes to having thrown out years of software engineering know-how I think there's possibly something to that, and it is currently being picked up on in more recent frameworks but perhaps, as is being highlighted by things like backbone and angular, trying to shoe-horn dogmatic desktop software patterns like MVC into building apps for a relatively young platform like the browser is only a organisational stop-gap on the way to better, more suitable patterns that are still to come.
[1] http://www.cappuccino-project.org/learn/objective-j.html