>Seems to me that's a junk science argument if developers insist on behaving like artisans painting by hand. It's a NET-centric POV for people who want to make a silk purse of their sow's ear IMHO. I see no reason why an interpreted language can't be a standard, encapsulating and automating as many variabilities as possible under the hood. No reason why that cannot include HTML5 for UI so as not to reinvent that wheel (as was necessary in the old FP days when there was no such standard.)

You have checked out Nativescript?