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Re:Web Starter Kit by simonw on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:27PM (#7918117)
"Web was never meant for applications"

And yet the web is a better platform for applications than anything else.

Zero installation, linkable states via URLs, universal back button support, accessibility hooks, multi-device, write-once-run-anywhere and an enormous variety of available programming languages.

All of that, AND it's built on top of truly open standards that aren't controlled by a single company and can't be killed by anyone (something VB6, Flash and BlackBerry developers should really appreciate).

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Re:Web Starter Kit by pjmlp on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:22PM (#7918383)
write-once-debug-hack-anywhere is more accurate.
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Re:Web Starter Kit by girvo on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:44PM (#7918477)
Still beats write-multiple-times-debug-everywhere.
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Re:Web Starter Kit by pjmlp on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:40PM (#7918679)
Not when write-multiple-times-debug-everywhere takes considerable less time, due to better tooling.

Please lets not pretend the Web invented how to write portable code.

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