[hardwaresofton]

I haven't looked at Meteor in a while, but am really impressed with how the vision of Meteor and the code (and of course the website) have evolved.

Meteor looks extremely simple to get up and started with, and I was thoroughly impressed by the implicit modularity of it all ("meteor create" makes like 3 files, I think that's awesome)

They really try (and succeed) to rid ourselves of the duplication on server and client. And if the android/ios support is as easy as it looks, this is an insanely useful framework.

I'm going to use it in my next project for sure now, just need to see how template/module composition works

[brentjanderson]

Phonegap development is still phonegap development, even with Meteor. That said, I built a prototype chat app and deployed to iOS in about an hour. It really was that easy, and the app runs terrifically well. The "write once, run anywhere" mantra is a little more real with Meteor than with other approaches I've used before.

[hardwaresofton]

Thanks for sharing -- that's awesome to hear, yeah, Phonegap definitely has it's warts, but I like the idea of being able to at least get SOMETHING up so quick (to match the web interface