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This could change a lot, especially for smaller developers that knows javascript really well.

The one thing it would lack in the end is native performance.

Even with mozillas latest JS magic asm.js: http://i.imgur.com/46hCFEJ.png



It's amazing that Dhrystone is still used in 2014. Some things just never know when to die [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone#Shortcomings


> The one thing it would lack in the end is native performance.

I'm gonna wait before I make a judgement on that one. Certainly at the moment HTML/JS solutions lack performance, but who knows what Chrome/OS/fancy pants integration Google will come up with eventually.




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