To be fair, the actual quote refers not to Meteor development, but to the realtime platform built for Asana in 2009: "People just wouldn’t wait around for the

To be fair, the actual quote refers not to Meteor development, but to the realtime platform built for Asana in 2009: "People just wouldn’t wait around for the application to sync each change with the server. So before they even began coding the actual task management features, Schmidt and company spent months building their underlying framework. It was hard. “This is a challenge up there with building Unix or Windows,” Schmidt says."