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I fail to see why you chose Javascript though. Surely a C base d approach would be the most platform independent. Works out of the box on most machines and much

I fail to see why you chose Javascript though. Surely a C base d approach would be the most platform independent. Works out of the box on most machines and much easier to port to Java/C#. Also you need to spend some time without the tinfoil hat. App stores have resulted in a lot more independent developers because it provides them a cheap distribution channel. Likewise vendor required development tools have always been around. There really isn't anything to be afraid of.

16s 14y ago
Yes, I do C++. Perhaps you missed that bit. That's the native code I was referring to. I'm concerned that my native code will no longer be able to run in the future. I chose JavaScript because of the ECMA standard and because vendors seem to be allowing it to run in browsers unhindered for now. I'm hoping they'll leave it be, but I'm betting they won't. I continue to write native C++ code, it's just that I'm concerned that one day it won't be allowed to run.
tysont 14y ago
Agree with the other comments. Choice of programming language is in some ways tangential to concerns over vendor lock in since other people can always come along with a different implementation of the language, unless of course programming languages end up being found to be patentable (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/13/1646215/oracle-and-google-spar-over-whether-programming-languages-can-be-copyrighted http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/13/1646215/oracle-and-g...).