Sometimes you can't do what you need to do in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I was trying to make an application that could read straight off of a TCP socket to stream i

Sometimes you can't do what you need to do in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I was trying to make an application that could read straight off of a TCP socket to stream images from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ into a mobile app in real-time. With the amount of data I was pushing though, the JavaScript couldn't keep up and was crashing so I had to go native. I think a lot of light-weight apps can be written in JavaScript, but sometimes it's just not possible.