I think it's a shame that something as as unambiguous and nice to work with as, say, the Cocoa framework and MVC (using that example because of familiarity), was available for us web developers without trying to shoehorn it into javascript and the browser environment.

Having had a taste of native app development, it makes client side web development comparatively frustrating. We're continuously getting new features but little in the way of a more satisfying environment that can help bring all these parts together.