All the pain of HTML5 and dealing with legacy and inconsistent browser implementations and yes, even poor performance in JavaScript, is worth it because of the

All the pain of HTML5 and dealing with legacy and inconsistent browser implementations and yes, even poor performance in JavaScript, is worth it because of the deployment model. Writing videogames in HTML5 on mobile is a tall order. I think it's more important as an industry that we reckon with how to effectively manage large teams developing huge applications in JS/HTML/CSS. I suppose that Facebook's development suffered from too many cooks in the kitchen, cruft building up, race conditions, etc. A video series I've seen tries to tackle scaling up JavaScript development by organizing development from an Agile/TDD angle, and I think with some success: http://www.letscodejavascript.com/ http://www.letscodejavascript.com/