Today, we're excited to announce the final release of Ember.js 1.0.
The first commit to the repository that would become Ember.js happened on April
30th, 2011, almost two and a half years ago.
At the time, Backbone.js was rocketing to popularity. In response to large
JavaScript frameworks like SproutCore, Cappuccino, and Dojo, which tried to
abstract away HTML, most web developers began rejecting any solution whose
source code they couldn't read over in an afternoon. The "microlibrary" frenzy
had hit full tilt.
