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Agree. I can see why a Mac/iOS developer might feel that way though.

Don't forget to pay your apple tax (TM) on the hardware to actually build said native apps. And your yearly tribute to the apple app store so they flip a coin as to whether your app is listed or removed.

The author never says that - you are misrepresenting them. They are against the walled garden.

But removing javascript from browsers will just make more walled gardens. Browsers are not walled gardens, unless your OS prevents you from installing other browsers (see iphones...).

It doesn't matter what you say you support if the consequences of what you do hurts that goal.

> But removing javascript from browsers will just make more walled gardens

What new walled gardens do you think would be created if JavaScript was removed from browsers?

A walled garden for every OS.

MacOS and iOS apps will need to be written in Swift, so you better hope all devs know Swift and have Macs to write code in.

Windows Apps will need to be written in... uh, C#? Good like finding as many devs for that as there are currently for JS.