the article is a lot more balanced than one would think when looking at the website
Let's not forget about the browser vendors who, instead of providing a sensible layered operating environment for web applications, foist a ridiculously high-level API for development upon programmers. Javascript and the DOM are not suitable bottom layers for real systems programming. These monoliths will never be secure. Take WebSockets: finally bringing non-polling networking to Javascript decades after it was obviously needed, and in a tragically "web-like" form (mandatory UTF8 encoding). HTML5 storage: a dictionary of strings. What? Who designs this bollocks?