> These are...weird criticisms. You basically seem to wish you were coding within a monopoly, for a single platform controlled by a single corporation. You kno

> These are...weird criticisms. You basically seem to wish you were coding within a monopoly, for a single platform controlled by a single corporation. You know, I never really thought about it that way, but I think you're right! <lazy dev hat>That WOULD be nice! A standard way to do anything, no need for unnecessary reinventions of the wheel... progress would slow down a bit, sure, but that's OK, nobody can keep peace with this lightning-fast explosion anyway, and slow and steady is more sustainable than volatile bubbles everywhere anyway. I think I would enjoy working in such a system...</lazy hat off> <open source hat on>Unfortunately, that'd also mean a closed ecosystem and we probably wouldn't have had the amateur dev boom that HTML/JS/CSS and its visible source gave us. I hate the messiness of that ecosystem, but I can't deny that the openness gave a boatload more people opportunities than the closed platforms. Maybe that's just the price we have to pay =/ </hats away> > Perhaps Swift is where you would like to be? I never tried. Is it nice? As a user I find iOS quite obnoxious, but maybe developing for it is different...?