I love it. Recently been rewriting Goleko.com backend in Go from Python. The errors as value paradigm is so nice for 90% of the time. It is so much more robust code out of the bat.
I love Cadd and I have been using it for a few years now.
The documentation is kinda crap, but I still use less time to get things done.
Most projects are just copy/paste of old config files.
Everytime I had a problem, I asked and got an answer within 2 days. And nice answers, not like Stackoverflow...
We continually get comments like this, but we rarely get elaboration on why people think this. Please explain what you mean. What's crap about it? We spend a lot of time improving the docs, and without specific feedback we're surprised to hear this.
That's because Francis, Mohammed, Matthew, and our other helpers are awesome. They are volunteers and do it because they like to help and find the project interesting. Thanks for being a part of the community
I am not american so I might be a bit unenlightened here.
But it sounds weird that San Francisco is running so bad and their put their faith in a "hero" dressed as an Swedish furniture store.
You're missing something lost in translation. It's not "all of San Fransisco" that is putting their faith in a "hero". It's a development.
In the US, it's common to have a major store people want to travel to (here IKEA, or a big Walmart, in the past it might have been Macy's) "anchor" a commercial development. A bunch of smaller ancillary stories and food places are built around the same parking area or indoor mall, in the theory that the foot traffic will drive business.
Also, a large, reliable renter makes the project financing smoother. There's (almost) no risk IKEA will stop paying for their space compared to "TigerTeamX's Emporium".
What the article is therefore claiming is that "if a giant commercial project with an IKEA fails, then no large commercial project is likely to be able to succeed".
