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【新闻】Famous获得2500万$投资 Famo.us, an unusual programming startup that allows users to make nifty mobile apps using JavaScript, has raised $25 million in additional funding and added high-profile investor Jerry Murdock to its board. The new round comes after two others — one for $1.1 million and another for $4 million. About $20 million of the new round is in exchange for equity, while $5 million is debt. Along with Murdock — whose investments via Insight Venture Partners have included Nest, Flipboard and Twitter — Samsung Ventures and Javelin Venture Partners are also participating, the company said. The San Francisco-based company is aimed at using JavaScript, the sometimes disrespected programming language, to create a product that is easy to use by a range of developers, even non-techies. To help promulgate that, Famo.us also offers a free online “university” where anyone can learn to program using its tools. As Famo.us wonkishly describes it: “Famo.us is the only JavaScript framework that includes an open source 3-D layout engine fully integrated with a 3-D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL.” Translation: Building a platform offering easy-to-use tools to make prettier and faster mobile apps that work across all devices. While a lot of this offering is free, CEO Steve Newcomb said — much like development startup GitHub does — Famo.us will eventually expand into other more lucrative arenas aimed at enterprise, such as analytics, testing and payment services. In an interview — after the company he co-founded, semantic search company Powerset, was bought by Microsoft for $100 million — Newcomb said he was attracted to JavaScript because it was an underappreciated programming language that works across a lot of devices. “After Powerset, I took some time off and HTML5 was all the rage,” said Newcomb, who can make very geeky things seem easy to grok. “As I looked at it, I became kind of a skeptic and thought this was not going to work.” Indeed not, he said, because Web browsers were designed to render documents and not apps, which is how most people now experience and consume the Internet. “You can use Famo.us to code on any device, with an aim of creating a low-code and even no-code environment,” said Newcomb. “Our goal is to take all the fundamental building blocks of the Web and rebuild them in Famo.us.” He added: “Microsoft and Apple can have the operating system, Oracle owns the database, but nobody owns the front end. Maybe that time has come.” “Famo.us is solving one of the most difficult problems in Web development: Making it easy to create truly cross-platform apps. Software developers have thousands of languages and frameworks to choose from, and they’re looking to deploy across more and more screens,” said Murdock in a statement. “Famo.us is removing that complexity so developers and designers can focus on creating beautiful UIs rather than developing differently for each platform.”
【新闻】Famous获得2500万$投资 Famo.us, an unusual programming startup that allows users to make nifty mobile apps using JavaScript, has raised $25 million in additional funding and added high-profile investor Jerry Murdock to its board. The new round comes after two others — one for $1.1 million and another for $4 million. About $20 million of the new round is in exchange for equity, while $5 million is debt. Along with Murdock — whose investments via Insight Venture Partners have included Nest, Flipboard and Twitter — Samsung Ventures and Javelin Venture Partners are also participating, the company said. The San Francisco-based company is aimed at using JavaScript, the sometimes disrespected programming language, to create a product that is easy to use by a range of developers, even non-techies. To help promulgate that, Famo.us also offers a free online “university” where anyone can learn to program using its tools. As Famo.us wonkishly describes it: “Famo.us is the only JavaScript framework that includes an open source 3-D layout engine fully integrated with a 3-D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL.” Translation: Building a platform offering easy-to-use tools to make prettier and faster mobile apps that work across all devices. While a lot of this offering is free, CEO Steve Newcomb said — much like development startup GitHub does — Famo.us will eventually expand into other more lucrative arenas aimed at enterprise, such as analytics, testing and payment services. In an interview — after the company he co-founded, semantic search company Powerset, was bought by Microsoft for $100 million — Newcomb said he was attracted to JavaScript because it was an underappreciated programming language that works across a lot of devices. “After Powerset, I took some time off and HTML5 was all the rage,” said Newcomb, who can make very geeky things seem easy to grok. “As I looked at it, I became kind of a skeptic and thought this was not going to work.” Indeed not, he said, because Web browsers were designed to render documents and not apps, which is how most people now experience and consume the Internet. “You can use Famo.us to code on any device, with an aim of creating a low-code and even no-code environment,” said Newcomb. “Our goal is to take all the fundamental building blocks of the Web and rebuild them in Famo.us.” He added: “Microsoft and Apple can have the operating system, Oracle owns the database, but nobody owns the front end. Maybe that time has come.” “Famo.us is solving one of the most difficult problems in Web development: Making it easy to create truly cross-platform apps. Software developers have thousands of languages and frameworks to choose from, and they’re looking to deploy across more and more screens,” said Murdock in a statement. “Famo.us is removing that complexity so developers and designers can focus on creating beautiful UIs rather than developing differently for each platform.”
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