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InfoWorld usually provides deep and technical reviews about IT-related products and technologies. I was therefore anxiously looking forward to their review of our product. Now, I have quite a lot of faith in what my colleagues built, but I was happily surprised when the results came in (8.5 out of 10).

I was especially pleased with these findings, which proved to me that they actually took the trouble to take a good look:

The good news is that the Backbase architects have a talent for elegant solutions, unlike the cluster of committees that produced the current mess called JavaScript. The event mechanism is straightforward and the XML provides a good amount of discipline.

The bad news is that you can’t do much with your hard-earned knowledge of producing cross-browser JavaScript. The API is, for most intents and purposes, an entirely new language. It’s smaller, cleaner, and crisper, but it’s still new. If you’re fed up by the lack of consistency in JavaScript, you’ll enjoy the rigidity of Backbase. Still, some JavaScript coders will resist Backbase, because it can’t be learned incrementally.

Read the full review here.