[TYPO3-dev] General Question on extbase

[Sebastian Kurfürst]

Hey Dmitry,

> As a core dev I should say: yes, use it, it is our future! 
:-) But the future is right now still in a state where needs some
polishing, but some people in the community have started to do this
(which I am very grateful about).

> As a regular daily PHP programmer, I would say that it is too early to
> do anything serious with Extbase/Fluid/FLOW3. While Extbase/Fluid
> appeared in the 4.x core, I neither saw any performance tests, nor I saw
> official docs or up–to–date tutorials.
We are heavily working on that, and I hope that we can release
comprehensive documentation around the snowboard tour, or maybe a little
after.

> This tells me that these two
> extension are not serious yet. So I would not use them in production.
> Even official blogExample fails in various points in its each version
> (including current). The whole thing does not feel like a finished,
> polished and ready to use product.
I think we all know that there are still some glitches to be corrected,
and I am very happy that there are already people using Extbase/Fluid,
as they help us identify and fix many of the issues you experience in
day-to-day work.

I think right now, it'd be beneficial for many people to look into the
blog example, just to get a feeling how working with Extbase is like. We
will support this much more in the future with proper documentation; I
think this is an area which is badly needed.

> I appologize for developers of this extensions if it hurts them to read
> the above paragraph.
Not at all ;-)

Greets,
Sebastian
PS: Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of Extbase, and the maintainer
for Fluid ;-) So maybe it can be interesting to see the opinion of
people who just started with it.