Well. I could whip up some cross platform guis in Scala, but the real question is: Can it web scale? If it doesn't have web scale synergies, then lets be real - it's no better than perl.

I didn't read your post, it was just the first one with a score above 2. I didn't read the article, I didn't even read the summary! However, here I sit and will tell you exactly what the article said. European government cooperated in testing their systems. They hired top notch people. when it was said an done, they found that severe work needed to be done to secure the systems in preparation for future threats. The article also manages to embarrass a government agency due to their incompetence. While the systems are holding up ok for now, it's just a matter of time before the whole thing comes crashing down at the feet of cyber terrorists. How'd I do?

Get off my lawn!

Will, we're still waiting for simcity 5 with hulking complexity and more stuff.

It can. I've tested it, it looks good.

Who are we?

Apple doesn't want an open web. They are trying to justify their purely commercial desire to kill off flash support - and they have plenty of reasons, not least of which is that the sales of 99c and $1.49 casual games in the app store would be severely impacted by the availability of a catalog of tens of thousands of already-released flash games.