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I'm baffled that a technology stack (HTML, JS) that every single web developer think is broken (but still have to deal with) is being considered for iOS development, and being promoted as an easy way to develop native apps.

This is where I think RubyMotion offered the best of both worlds: native APIs and Ruby's flexibility (even if Objective-C is really not that bad or hard to learn).

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Web Dev here. I don't think the stack is broken.

Positioning elements, fighting to implement the support of multiples screen resolutions, dealing with JS quarks, etc. All those topics are mastered in most native frameworks and clearly a hot topic in web dev.

Maybe broken is a little bit exaggerated, but very well deserved IMHO.

After several years in web dev _and_ mobile dev, I can safely say that even in a couple of years, native toolchains won't be relegated to a marginal role and remain the only efficient way of developing native apps.

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