"The client-side mess · Things are bad. You have to build everything three times: Web, iOS, Android. We’re talent-starved, this is egregious waste, and it’s really hurting us."
Not really, Xamarin did a good job of simplifying this (and you can use decent modern languages). HTML5/CSS/JS on the other hand is the real client-side mess - let's hope we will see more PNaCl/asm.js developments for non-game applications in 2014.
"The client-side mess · Things are bad. You have to build everything three times: Web, iOS, Android. We’re talent-starved, this is egregious waste, and it’s really hurting us."
Not really, Xamarin did a good job of simplifying this (and you can use decent modern languages). HTML5/CSS/JS on the other hand is the real client-side mess - let's hope we will see more PNaCl/asm.js developments for non-game applications in 2014.