The team has been rather clear that Ember is Desktop MVC, not web/server based:
https://twitter.com/trek/status/309315009291378690
They say as much in their guides as well.
They say as much in their guides as well.
That's orthogonal to what I'm talking about. I agree that their use of the term "MVC" is much closer to the original meaning it had on the desktop (like in Cocoa) than the meaning in server-side frameworks like Rails.
But I'm not talking about what MVC means. I'm talking about what kind of applications Ember is intended to be used to build.
A flagship example would be Discourse, which is very deeply web-focused, and nothing like the way you would structure a desktop application.
These apps are built on the web. One look at the Discourse Ember code and I think you'll understand perfectly the confusion I'm writing about.
But I'm curious: do you use Ember or are your responses "what you think"
While we're being pedantic, it's Model 2, not MVC2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_2