Sometimes it feels like we’ve been arguing over which is better, a native app or a hybrid app, since the beginning of time, with dire consequences predicted for anyone who chose incorrectly. But a lot has changed since 2012. First of all, HTML5 support is now so ubiquitous that even the term itself has begun to sound like an anachronism. Nobody really touts their HTML5 support anymore — it’s simply assumed. In terms of mobile app development, the landscape has changed dramatically too. The native development landscape changed significantly with introduction of Swift . This eliminated one of the major “pain points” of doing native development, at least according to some — Objective C. Cordova (aka PhoneGap) has improved for hybrid development , as has the WebViews that it relies upon for both iOS and Android . Projects like Crosswalk have even smoothed out the fragmentation issue that famously plagued Android. In addition, a large number of cloud-based tools, including