I have also experienced this sad situation with Firefox. XUL was my biggest disappointment because mozilla was not willing to invest any time to make it better. Instead they shipped this monstrosity called addon-sdk. You need python to develop JS applications? This is stupid.
I would love to see firefox converging with NodeJS but given mozilla's attitude towards developers lately I seriously doubt that it will ever happen.
Firefox has a very rich history and the technology is fantastic but sadly it is not made to be easy to the developer.
> Firefox has a very rich history and the technology is fantastic but sadly it is not made to be easy to the developer.
Believe it or not, all those technologies used to be fantastically developer-friendly, compared to the alternatives. It's just that over the last 15 years the alternatives have gotten friendlier faster than Firefox has.
I would love to see firefox converging with NodeJS but given mozilla's attitude towards developers lately I seriously doubt that it will ever happen.
Firefox has a very rich history and the technology is fantastic but sadly it is not made to be easy to the developer.