I like the broad idea (applications should be very responsive). Yes, this is very important, but I can't shake the feeling that the author of the manifesto has

I like the broad idea (applications should be very responsive). Yes, this is very important, but I can't shake the feeling that the author of the manifesto has very little experience with responsive software (or even with software generally). For example, the manifesto confuses ends with means. It states a desired end, but then claims that certain means are required to get there (for example, "event-driven"). Maybe event-drivenness can come into play in a given system, maybe it shouldn't; across a broad set of domains this is orthogonal to the concept of responsiveness. In video games, for example, we do things that are extremely responsive compared to web stuff (last week I worked on something that had to run at 200 frames per second in order to meet requirements). Interactive 3D rendering systems are most certainly not event-driven; they derive their responsiveness from cranking through everything as quickly as possible all the time. There are lots of different domains of software out there and they all have found different local attractors with regard to what techniques work and produce the best result. Web software is just one of these domains, and frankly, it isn't doing so well in terms of quality compared to some of the other ones. So I think if one wants to write a manifesto like this, step one should be to get out of the Web bubble for a while and work hard in some other domains in order to get some breadth and find some real solutions to return with.