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> After 10 months, you should have been able to work around nearly anything you mention in your article. But that's exactly the point. Ages ago this comment on
by harryf 11y ago
> After 10 months, you should have been able to work around nearly anything you mention in your article.
But that's exactly the point. Ages ago this comment on HN summarized the situation perfectly... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7442766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7442766
"It takes less time to learn and build native instead of trying to hammer Javascript into a hole it doesnt fit into, and spending hours attempting to optimize it's performance to no end."
- orthecreedence 11y ago> It takes less time to learn and build native instead of trying to hammer Javascript into a hole it doesnt fit into, and spending hours attempting to optimize it's performance to no end... ...depending on the size of the app. I have an open source project that I devote a handful of hours a week to. I absolutely do not have the capacity to create native apps for desktop, iOS, and Android. It's great if the writer of that comment has either a tiny app that does nothing important or has a ton of free time, but not everyone is so lucky to be able to maintain an app on 3+ separate platforms. Javascript is the one language all devices speak well, so as someone who is proficient in it, has an existing (somewhat complicated) app, and wants to port it to mobile as quickly as possible, rebuilding everything twice in two different languages and two different UI platforms is just not an option.