Thank you Gez,
Yes, in facts.
Cook is stable enough to go in production. As far as I know, there are still a lot of gremmlins to my point of view (little graphical issues, or else). Cook is still not on 3.0, and must respect again more the standards.
When 2.0 will be released, we will be able to say Cook is ready to be known by the world Joomla community.
For the moment, the politic is to encourage more the pure developpers and for sure they access to a good tool. The more users, the more support, so better is to finish properly the core framework with a good website, before to go on.
I was also limited for future devs in the current Cook framework. Rewriting 2.0 was important to be able going further in future (sky's the limit now). (It is the 4th rewrite since 4.5 years of dev)
Try it, enjoy it, but don't forget that the last definitive upgrade is coming soon, so you will be asked to migrate your source to the new generated structure. (cross compatibilities and stable).
Anyway, when I went on every single details of creating a Joomla component, I can tell you there is a lot to do. Redirections, SEF, securities and ACLs, etc...
When cook is for sure sometimes buggy (I am exigent), it is still far better than starting from zero (forgetting securities and all types of exploits). So do not hesitate and learn it.
Start to learn how it works inside, because it is becoming the world's most popular component generator. Don't miss it
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