I have to agree - if anything there is a greater move away from JavaScript towards native platforms, although I think that C# via Unity and Xamarin.iOS/Xamarin.Android is gaining significant popularity. C++ does technically work on both iOS and Android, but I think its use outside of games is fairly small - Google has bold text on the NDK download page saying it won't be useful for many applications and Xcode's support isn't anywhere near as good as its support for Objective-C.

Very true about Xamarin - that has exploded in the last six months or so.

>If your app is too easy to write it will be cloned and you won't make money from it anyway.

That's a bit oversimplification. First of all, writing in JavaScript doesn't make the app easier to clone, the programming language has very little effect on the easiness of cloning. Secondly, even if an application can be re-implemented quickly, doesn't mean one cannot make money from it. Twitter can be implemented in a single weekend, but that doesn't mean the Twitter-clone will be profitable.

"...but that doesn't mean the Twitter-clone will be profitable."

Especially considering that Twitter isn't either :-).

"First of all, writing in JavaScript doesn't make the app easier to clone"

Yep, shipping the source code for your entire application IN the application doesn't make it any easier to clone. Somebody better tell that to the Phonegap users who are dealing with knockoffs:

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/17/ripoff-apps-plague-some-ios-d...

I was talking about legal clones.

I think how easy your app is to clone depends more on your feature set and business model, than any choice in language. It's actually an advantage to use languages that make it easy to write your applications, since really, speed-to-market is the most important factor in selling software.