justin_d

Anyone who thinks they are D deficient should just go to the doctor and get your blood tested.

It's remarkable how much js gets loaded onto a page (mainly due to libraries) vs. how much of its functions are needed for what the web developer is trying to do. There just is not a whole lot of use cases for the big libraries unless you're doing something really intensive like a drawing app.

Worth pointing out that every year millions of people worldwide are killed or injured by drivers using cell phones while driving.

coffee

Some problems with the article.

One you cherry pick SPA attempts, like with Twitter. This is an example of a company trying to refactor for SPA, not doing SPA from the beginning.

Libraries that help with SPA are maturing. It's easy to implement routing with backbone for example. You just have to be a good developer and actually learn.

The part that really matters is being a solid dev. Not if you choose SPA or not.

From what I gather this is good for privately sharing other people's private data? Correct me if I misunderstand the idea here.

my experience with react is that it's really fast.

There are issues however with the way that some browsers render canvas, particularly stock browsers. I've had wildly different fps on different browsers.

Meteor

a little invasive don't you think

Thanks, I was aware of these products, but didn't know the history with Brace.