I read the interview of Philip Greenspun in Founders at Work recently and in it he says that he realized applications will be written for the web in the future

I read the interview of Philip Greenspun in Founders at Work recently and in it he says that he realized applications will be written for the web in the future because you don't have to deal with different operating systems. This was early 90s. It's really amazing that this had actually happened by 2009, and the author of the quoted blog did not yet get it. It could be that "web programmers" are not smart enough to understand all of what was listed. It could also be that the listed stuff does not actually matter, as it's just one way of doing things. I don't think that having a job that is difficult to do is something that you should wear as a badge of honor, if it can be done in an easier way. The important thing is what you're able to do with the skills and tools you do have, and how much the people that use it like it. The cynic in me thinks some people spend a long time to understand difficult things and concepts, and therefore don't want to let them go because it will effectively mean that they'd wasted their time.