Some code is not meant to live forever. In particular, during development phases of projects, it can be very reassuring to know that a particular release of an application will have a short life-cycle, because you’ll be (relatively) assured that users aren’t accidentally running crufty old (development!) versions of the app. The basic means of [...]

If I wanted to program in a crappy language just so I could get more customers, I’d switch to Windows, not stinking JavaScript. Pretty much sums it up for me, too. Wil makes this point and about a million other cutting and accurate remarks about Apple’s sloppy presentation of web development as an “SDK” for [...]