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S1: Making the Netflix iOS App

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The Importance of Freedom and Responsibility

I generally think of a language as a means to an end. So for me, it could be whatever language. But if I can build something with a great experience, I'll use that language. It just turns out that when we were using WebView, it was really difficult to build something that was really smooth and that we were able to leverage all of the native capabilities. Do you ever wish you'd go back to JavaScript or is just the love of square brackets? Yes. And so I can imagine it would be awesome if we had the same performance that you guys get for Web because it is extremely difficult to make JavaScript awesome.

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