Software in 2014

ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014:
"We’re at an in­flec­tion point in the prac­tice of con­struct­ing soft­ware. Our tools are good, our server de­vel­op­ers are happy, but when it comes to build­ing client-side soft­ware, we re­ally don’t know where we’re going or how to get there."

The client-side mess · Things are bad. You have to build everything three times: Web, iOS, Android. (No Windows?)

JavaScript is horrible.
> [5, 10, 1].sort();
[ 1, 10, 5 ]