HTML Web App Development Still Has a Ways To Go

GMGruman writes "Neil McAllister was helping out a friend whose web developer disappeared. Neil's journey into his friend's website ended up being an archaeological dig through unstable remains, as layers of code in different languages easily broke when touched. Neil realized in that experience that the ever-growing jumble of standards, frameworks, and tools makes web application development harder than it needs to be. Although the Web is all about open standards where anyone can create variations for their specific needs and wants, Neil's experience reminded him that a tightly controlled ecosystem backed by a major vendor does make it easier to define best practices, set development targets, and deliver results with a minimum of chaos. There's something to be said for that."

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Re:Web development is hard for even talented peopl

[Alex Zepeda]

No, it's really not. The development tools are ass and the language itself fails with its non-intuitive comparison operators. Being prototype based leads to really nasty code and "creative" ways of scoping variables. But that's if you want to be pedantic. If you are willing to lump the standard library in with the language, then you've got even bigger problems. What's actually cross-platform is a pretty small subset of anything useful, leaving people to roll their own hacks.