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I read the overview but I'm still not clear on why/how I would use this.

What other existing frameworks would I use this instead of?

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Its a good mobile development framework.

It would likely compete with things like Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, Jo, and other frameworks targeted at building mobile and hybrid applications.

Enyo 2 [...] doesn’t yet include a UI package, but features a tight, cross-platform core that will serve as the foundation for future Enyo development, supporting libraries and add-ons of all kinds.

Honestly, I'd wait until they have a UI framework and see if it compares to Bootstrap. The core certainly enables more organized, JS-focused code. Probably good for large web apps.

This is to javascript as rails is to ruby. (that might not be the best analogy, but better than bootstrap) While there is a UI portion, the reason it does not exist right now is because it's not meant to be solely a UI framework, such as Bootstrap. I don't think comparing it to bootstrap is, by any stretch of the imagination, reasonable. In fact, there shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't use Enyo in conjunction with bootstrap.

You can certainly use the CSS parts of Bootstrap with Enyo 2.0... I've been playing with that myself. Once we have new widgets, we're hoping to avoid the need to do a lot of CSS work to make great looking apps.

You're right; I think it can be compared much more closely to a framework like DoJo.

From the source:

When are the UI widgets coming to Enyo 2?

It is the very next thing we are working on, and we hope to have it out in about a month. We’ll update you with regular builds as work progresses, now that Enyo is an open source project.

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