It's amusing that an article pushing hybrid apps as a good way forward was inspired by a hybrid app breaking in a way a "pure" app wouldn't.

Beyond that thought the article seems a little, well, odd. Is the argument that "web programs are as real as native programs"? If so, isn't that a statement of the obvious? Most modern programs are abstractions upon abstractions - whether your layout engine is an embedded OS provided web browser or an OS provided XML resources parser, does it matter?

Or is this another one of those religious war argument things where programming in a scripting language isn't "real" programming? Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/378/

I probably missed the point of it, but it is Friday after all so I'm mostly waiting for the weekend to start.