Thank you for writing this. You said about 90% of what I've been thinking about the web development community, and especially the client-side JS community for a while. So many of these problems have been solved, and a lot of them were solved with Cocoa, the iOS SDK and it's approach to building rich, complex user interfaces.
But, a lot of the js community is simply childish about it's approach to web development. They don't like static typing, they don't like the obj-c syntax, they're OBSESSED with micro -- they hate a framework (just use backbone!). Yet, as you point out in your post, so many of the problems we solve over and over again on the web were solved years ago by cocoa. But you know, they don't need all that "complexity". Please.
I'll stop now before I get a little too hand-wavy :)
The modern js developer is something akin to the antithesis of the architecture astronaut -- the architecture minimalist, or maybe the astro-hipster ;)
Thanks for writing this man, looking forward to see what you build next at Google. Thanks for your contributions to Cappuccino and other open source.
But, a lot of the js community is simply childish about it's approach to web development. They don't like static typing, they don't like the obj-c syntax, they're OBSESSED with micro -- they hate a framework (just use backbone!). Yet, as you point out in your post, so many of the problems we solve over and over again on the web were solved years ago by cocoa. But you know, they don't need all that "complexity". Please.
I'll stop now before I get a little too hand-wavy :)
The modern js developer is something akin to the antithesis of the architecture astronaut -- the architecture minimalist, or maybe the astro-hipster ;)
Thanks for writing this man, looking forward to see what you build next at Google. Thanks for your contributions to Cappuccino and other open source.