They sort of disclose it, but the author of the article is also CEO of:<p><a href="https://www.fusetools.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fusetools.com/</a><p>Which is seriously banking on cross platform development. I find this article to be dishonest at best.<p>------<p>More to the point, I hate this idea that Javascript and HTML can/should be used everywhere. Why? What about them is good? That they're easy? For who? N00bs?<p>I find writing apps for the browser to be incredibly obnoxious because of competing APIs, absolutely mysterious memory management, and a lack of standards. I started my programming life making my UIs with web technologies and I can say after having done native programming-- I never want to go back. It's actually easier (for me), and less buggy, to produce native applications that are networked.<p>I find the combination of CSS, HTML, and Javascript to be a disconnected burden. I find the plethora of competing frameworks all achieving the same thing to be a burden. Javascript is a alright language, I certainly don't hate it, but I just don't see any reason to use it when I have alternatives available...<p>Lastly, as others have pointed out this does nothing for helping you learn the APIs (which is the hard part). In the end, to understand the APIs you're going to have to learn some of the language anyway-- before you know it, you're just writing native code because it's easier.