>>>>>>Do you use Javascript? Now THAT'S weird.
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>>>>I do and I agree with you, it's weird, but no one is heradling it as the greatest thing since artisanally hand-made, geo-thermally baked, locally sourced, whole grain, un-sliced bread.
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>>>Actually a lot of people are heralding it. In an incredibly cluttered browser tools landscape, Javascript/jQuery and HTML5 are the ones that keep coming up over and over.
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>>But if they are honest or knowledgable, they will also agree that a large part is in the league of one eyed man...
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>I'm not sure I agree with you there. It's unclear who the winners will be but IMO this is the most flourishing development environment of our lifetimes.

Hi Mike,

my quip was more on the part up to "Javascript ... heralding it". jQuery ***is*** clearly beneficial to lots of devs -
but in starting most of such libs (DoJo, Sencha are no slouches either) helped by dressing up [perceived only?]
warts of Javascript language: more traditional class similar type of coding, fleshing out often needed routines...

Which ones will survive best in next 6 years ?
Dunno, Sencha looks perhaps more interesting/better rounded from technical angle,
but jQuery has more OS "umph" packed behind it IMO and greater market [?free?] saturation.

regards

thomas