> JavaScript and the DOM have not been incredibly successful at turning the browser into a first-class application development platform.
Seriously? From where I stand, it looks like browser-based applications are destroying the desktop-based software market with alacrity, and are coming for mobile. And also that major vendors like Google and Microsoft are shipping desktop platforms where JS (and sometimes the DOM) is a primary way of developing applications.
The browser as application development platform is one of the two most important developments in software development in the last 20 years. That looks "incredible successful" to me.
Seriously? From where I stand, it looks like browser-based applications are destroying the desktop-based software market with alacrity, and are coming for mobile. And also that major vendors like Google and Microsoft are shipping desktop platforms where JS (and sometimes the DOM) is a primary way of developing applications.
The browser as application development platform is one of the two most important developments in software development in the last 20 years. That looks "incredible successful" to me.