On Sunday, February 5, 2012, Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com> wrote: >> >> Just a final sentence: We are in 2012, and nothing changed. HTML5/JS/CSS >> stack continues with the same problems and is inferior to what Flex/Flash >> give us. I think 2013 will be again the same... > > > This is incredibly false and shortsighted. In the HTML/JS world an > INCREDIBLE amount changed in 2012. There was a huge amount of momentum > around microarchitecture frameworks, Backbone, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, > BatmanJS, and on and on. Frameworks that also include many UI component > pieces, such as jQuery, the recently updated Twitter Bootstrap, Sencha's' > ExtJS, etc. Coffeescript surged in popularity, which addresses many of the > "JS sucks" arguments that Flash devs often have. NodeJS kept chugging > along, becoming an actual option for a production server written in JS (and > of course you can also write your server code with Coffeescript on top of > Node). JetBrains WebStorm now offers a solid JavaScript IDE. Areas that > have traditionally been dominated by Flash, like data visualization, are > being challenged by powerful JS libraries like D3.js (for charting and > data-viz), and polymaps (for geographic mapping), and WebGL content has > made impressive advances with libraries like Three.JS. > > Saying nothing changed means you haven't been paying attention. HTML/JS is > changing faster than almost any other technology stack out there at the > moment. It has more momentum and developer interest than almost any other > technology stack. DO NOT write it off as being inferior. >
^^^ Quoted for emphasis. -omar
