Damian’s TumblrClarification
It’s not about Adobe.
It’s not about Flash.
It’s not about cross-platform.
It’s about less code.
It’s about fewer crashes.
It’s about faster-than-C runtime.
It’s about faster development time.
It’s about distributed computing.
It’s about pervasive multicore.
It’s about REPLs and live software.
It’s about software that preemptively exposes my coding errors.
It’s about better software.
Apple are restricting the programming systems you are permitted to use to make iPhone apps so as to avoid the risk that someone will popularize something worse than their Objective C++ and Cocoa Touch system—but this also prevents anyone from coming up with something better.
