It seems to be an everlasting battle: what’s “better”: developing mobile _native_ applications or developing mobile _web_ applications? Sadly, the answer is boring: it depends.
After the [InfoQ news article](http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/02/Mobl) about mobl, I was invited to write a full-length article there as well. Well, I did, and here it is: [2900 words of mobl goodness](http://www.infoq.com/articles/Mobl):
_(If you are familiar with the problems of moving from synchronous to asynchronous programming, feel free to move to the next section.)_
**Update:** A lot of people misunderstood the main issue: [here is another shot at explaining…
* Brazil: [Mobl: uma nova linguagem para a criação de aplicativos móveis](http://www.scrollux.com.br/2011/02/mobl-uma-nova-linguagem-para-criacao-de.html)* Japan: [これは凄いぞ！スマートフォン向けHTML5生成プログラミング言語「mobl」](http://www.moongift.jp/r/2011/02/20110214/)* China: [Mobl — —…
_(This is a cross-post from the [mobl blog](http://www.mobl-lang.org/417/semi-colon/))_
When should I use semicolons (`;`) and when shouldn’t I in [mobl](http://www.mobl-lang.org)?
[InfoQ: Mobl — A New DSL for Creating HTML5 Mobile Applications](http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/02/Mobl):> Mobl is an external DSL targeted at creating cross-browser applications for mobile devices by compiling the code into HTML5, and it has been developed by Zef Hemel as part of his Ph.D. thesis in…
For the past few weeks I’ve been really pushing [mobl, and in particular its website](http://www.mobl-lang.org/), forward. I’m writing a series of tutorials, of which there are now three installments:
I think that it’s well-established by now that the majority of desktop software will move to the browser at some point. It happened to e-mail, calendar, word processing and many more applications already. But here’s a crazy idea: what if we move the server to the browser…
Yesterday I posted the slides of my 41 minute long lecture about [mobl](http://mobl-lang.org). I also recorded video of it (through my MacBook’s webcam) and the result is acceptable enough to publish. So, if you have some time to spare, here’s me presenting mobl to a group of our students, a demo is included:
I gave a lecture about [mobl](http://mobl-lang.org) today. Here are the slides. I also recorded video, but I have to check if it is of sufficient quality.
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