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by laughinghan 5003 days ago
I'm honestly surprised he didn't mention Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...

The crux of the argument is, "As a software developer, I am happiest writing software that gets used. What's the point of all this craftsmanship if your software ends up locked away in a binary executable, which has to be purchased and licensed and shipped and downloaded and installed and maintained and upgraded? With all those old, traditional barriers between programmers and users, it's a wonder the software industry managed to exist at all. But in the brave new world of web applications, those limitations fall away. There are no boundaries. Software can be everywhere."