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Hey :-)

I'm one of the authors of wolkenkit, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask here :-)

As a non-native German speaker who's lived in Germany for coming up on 10 years, aren't you concerned that it'll be pronounced like "wol-kenkit" not "volkenkit" for non-germans?

Naming things is hard but after watching UBER Inc destroy the pronunciation, spelling and etc of a German word, I'm always cautious about unusual names.

(Also because, as now I'm hung up on the name before giving your product a fair chance)

Well, yes, there's a certain risk. We had the idea that people liked the word "wolke" (German for "cloud"). Anyway, of course, I would be very happy if you gave wolkenkit a second chance ;-)

I did - reading the brochure now, the word "semantic" keeps cropping up and I wonder if it's an unsympathetic translation from German, or I'm too far away from the JS world to understand that "Semantic" means:

> That‘s why we have built wolkenkit, a semantic JavaScript backend that addresses three important aspects of software development, and that empowers you to build better software faster.

There's a bunch of things wrong with this claim, "a javascript backend" sounds like an alternative JS VM to me, a backend for javascript (I presume it's meant that this is server side JS not client side?) I also always get my back up when I read "build software faster", surely it ought to be about maintainability when it comes to the perks of DDD/CQRS.

Actually, you're right. What we mean is that it's a backend for JavaScript applications, which itself uses JavaScript.

To be fair, 'uber' had been in use as an adverb on the internet long before the company stepped on the scene, it's just that now it's in everyone's face …

Can you explain in one or two sentences what wolkenkit is doing exactly? From scrolling through the docs it sort of looks like meteor but with a different data model?

What is your reasoning for AGPL - it's a no-go for

a) indie developers because they can't afford the enterprise stack which is presumably not AGPL

b) enterprises because immediately expect a huge price tag

And last but not least: Why is this not platform agnostic (e.g. only node)?

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