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Please provide some proof when making such extraordinary remarks. Given their requirements, these companies would have to be insane to try to build their apps with web technologies…

It is not mathematically proven, but there are studies that indicate this (e.g Code Complete provides some) This assumes that the code bases are of similar quality.

What is your cross-platform development experience and on what do you base your grandiose assertion? I must ask because this just looks like webapp kool-aid. I am increasing my own…

No it's not. After the major Obj-C hype on HN I decided to learn it and was very disappointed. 1. C compatibility is a liability, not a benefit. Every language that has build on C …

Interesting. What were they using, C++? I've heard about D...

You can, but I think the benefits are vastly overestimated. Languages are tools and the purpose of engineering is building, not having a tool fetish. This doesn't mean one should u…

Well, OCaml and Haskell are nice, but I wouldn't think of using them for webdev. I would be literally unhireable in my area (major EU country). I haven't done any webdev in years, …

What do you mean by "more full-featured alternatives". To me the main webdev languages look about the same when it comes to the major features that have a noticeable impact on a pr…

Do you have inside info on this? I've seen several people from Facebook comment that they are in fact using PHP. The fact that they're compiling to C++ is a consequence of the slow…

Well, we can all dream, but what are you using now do get things done and make a living? I'm pretty sure Python and Ruby fail your criteria. Using the "perfect language" is a luxur…