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Definitely a great way to lower the barrier to entry. The eject feature is sweet since it removes the risk of lock in. Looking forward to integrated unit testing libraries in a future release. While you're at it let's add redux. :)

Completely agree. It is one of the few podcasts I listen to regularly.

A great acquisition of a group of really smart people doing interesting work. This is the kind of company Apple should have been looking at acquiring if it wants to ever truly compete with Google in mapping and online services in general.

Software truly is eating the world and this is an example of that.

"... Sometimes he really doesn't help the issue by somehow managing to charge head first into even more trouble..." or a camera! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8haZzvaE8)

I agree. I've been going through his tutorials and they are great. Fire up sublime with node.js running as a simple http server and you can quickly follow along building simple apps that will get you up to speed.

I agree this is a fantastic demonstration of technology and art.

I'm impressed by how good the 3D view looks. Good to see that a company that is struggling is still trying to innovate.

Yeah performance is another issue. But providing a type that compiles to a defined type that implements decimal representation would be very useful. GWT pulls off something similar by compiling the Java BigDecimal to a JavaScript equivalent.

This is great to hear. I have only just started reading up on TypeScript. But I would love to know if there will be support for a decimal type. I have been following Google's work on Dart and it doesn't look like they will be implementing it last I checked. Such a feature would be a great differentiator.

Definitely a great documentary. It reminded me of the importance of a passion for your craft and a sincere desire to do great work.

Are you using JSLint or Google's Closure Compiler to ensure code quality on the Javascript side?

Great looking app! What did you guys use as your IDE and what is your build process like? I'm currently in the process of transitioning a team from a thick client plugin architecture to HTML 5 and am interested in hearing from others how they have built impressive looking apps in Javascript and HTML.

I agree with you but I often question when people list "lock in" as an issue. How often do you see projects where they decide to move from one db to another? Even in cases where an ORM is used, making the migration process painless in theory, I doubt many projects take the risk and exercise their freedom of not being locked in.

Companies that properly implement service oriented architectures will be very well positioned to create these advanced web applications that push the computational cost of rendering the UI to the client machines. An added benefit that many overlook is the ability to execute on mobile strategies. I do not buy the idea that mobile applications will one day all be html based. Client-based applications will always produce a richer, more integrated experience. But, if you have already designed your html application to function more like a rich client. You already have the api calls that any other mobile, or desktop application would need. You have forced yourself to design the back-end based on services that encapsulate a good amount of business logic that will not have to be repeated when implementing the different "views" of your application.

It's unfortunate but it was inevitable. HTML 5 is definitely the future. Although, the ability to write an app using type-safe, object oriented code that can run on both the client and server was very compelling.

Great post. I always learn something new when the SO guys share their experiences with .NET in a large scale web application. Thanks for the link to the memory profiler. Hopefully it will be better than struggling with windbg.