I've been playing with Meteor lately, and I can certainly see some element of lock in when using it. That scares me naturally. However, the positives are:
1) Speed: It is insane how little work has to be done to stand something up that is decent and funtional
2) Packages: Not a long list, but the ones that exist are ridiculously easy to implement.
Seriously, the sheer amount of work that you end up NOT doing almost makes it feel like cheating. I can completely understand why people don't like it. I fully intend to build something in Derby soon, and to examine Rendr. But I'm wanting to build an enterprise focused metadata management app, and Meteor seems to me to be the right way to go, because at the end of the day I just want to get something built that provides a capability.
Seriously, the sheer amount of work that you end up NOT doing almost makes it feel like cheating. I can completely understand why people don't like it. I fully intend to build something in Derby soon, and to examine Rendr. But I'm wanting to build an enterprise focused metadata management app, and Meteor seems to me to be the right way to go, because at the end of the day I just want to get something built that provides a capability.