Yakov Fain is a world-class whiner and master of hyperbole. He was always the "squeaky wheel" in the Flash/Flex community, and it doesn't surprise me that he's still whining.
Why it's being picked up by HN is beyond me... maybe because Google is the favorite scapegoat recently? Certainly few people bothered reading what he wrote and just started commenting/complaining.
It's astonishing to me that Google is getting flak for dropping (in 5 months) what amounts to a 3rd-party-patch for a browser that'll be turning 5 years old. They already dropped support for IE8 in Google Apps, and jQuery dropped support several months ago.
If Fain wants to play with fancy new technologies, he should find clients who want to use new technologies.
Why it's being picked up by HN is beyond me... maybe because Google is the favorite scapegoat recently? Certainly few people bothered reading what he wrote and just started commenting/complaining.
It's astonishing to me that Google is getting flak for dropping (in 5 months) what amounts to a 3rd-party-patch for a browser that'll be turning 5 years old. They already dropped support for IE8 in Google Apps, and jQuery dropped support several months ago.
If Fain wants to play with fancy new technologies, he should find clients who want to use new technologies.