>Something takes away all the headaches of cross browser and cross platform environments. Something more along the lines of SAAS Windev, Lianja, or Servoy. Most developers (IMO) want to concentrate on the core processes, not on learning the ins, out and quirks of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Its too expensive to waste your time on that IMO.


We've come full circle with servers and dumb terminals only now the dumb terminal is a browser, but instead of 1 standard terminal we now get to deal with 100's of different screen sizes, cross-browser compatibility issues, css headaches, etc. etc.

You want to write an app today? You're going to need:

Visual Studio
C#
ORM NHibernate
Rest Services
Javascript
JQuery
AngularJS
Bootstrap
IIS
SQL Server
etc.
etc.