The author has clearly never worked on a non-trivial mobile project. Today, more so than ever, the two mobile platforms differ so drastically in APIs, user expe

The author has clearly never worked on a non-trivial mobile project. Today, more so than ever, the two mobile platforms differ so drastically in APIs, user experience and design that anyone seriously considering writing mobile apps will have to do so using two different code bases if they want to have a remotely usable app. Portable frameworks might have a place where you target extremely simple like forms based stuff. But even then I would personally never deliver something like that to customers. I guess we all have different standards when it comes to quality. "A revamp of the language is already in the works". Of Javascript? Haha, that is hilarious. Progress on ECMAScript has been a such boondogle in regards to politics, glacial adoption rate of new features and other general fuck ups that we will unlikely see something even close to a modern language in our lifetimes. But, you know Linux on the desktop will take over the world anytime now, won't it?