Dojo Javascript Library

If there is one lesson to be learned from the Dojo Toolkit, it is “Be careful what you
wish for!”When we first started Dojo, we had the modest goal of creating a JavaScript
toolkit that would be useful and would prevent expert JavaScript developers from having
to reinvent the wheel.With the buzz and excitement that would soon follow with the
emergence of the term Ajax, we quickly found ourselves as the creators of a toolkit used
by thousands and thousands of developers and millions of users in a very short time.
In the case of any project or company that grows much faster than expected, there are
growing pains along the way. It has taken Dojo nearly 18 months to address and solve
most of the issues caused by its rapid success: performance, comprehension, ease of use,
and documentation. Open source projects are notoriously bad at both marketing and
documentation, and Dojo was initially no exception to the rule.With each release from
Dojo 0.9 to 1.1 and beyond, documentation and API viewing tools have improved sig-
nificantly and are now something we’re proud to have rather than being a blemish to the
project.

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