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All apps should be native. Who needs browsers and JavaScript?

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Re: All apps should be native. Who needs browsers and JavaScript?

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This post was killed by user flags.

I'm pretty new to HN and am not sure why the post was killed. I was looking forward to an interesting debate on the value of browsers vs native apps. Can you please give advice for how to avoid being flagged while stimulating interesting debate? Thank you for the help.

A good debate would be useful. Good debates don't generally start off with "Browsers suck". I found little of true value in this post.

Re: All apps should be native. Who needs browsers and JavaScript?

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> as I mature as a programmer I continually see JavaScript as a pretty awful language for real programming Not sure what the author means by "real programming". Is this opposed to "fake programming"? The more I mature as a programmer, the more I appreciate JavaScript's flexibility & readability. This allows for some useful idioms to manage complexity on large & intricate codebases. I like these dynamic idiomatic arch…

Fake Programming: Using hacks and tricks to achieve things other languages have natively. Though anybody will admit it's some pretty clever stuff, not many seem to look at things like this and recognize it for what it is. Javascript's not the language rife with proprietary bullshit anymore, it's become something a bit more new: a hacked together super-language. Stick thousands of brilliant people on one unfortunate p…

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