Comment by Sanddancer

The death of FirefoxOS was inevitable, because of two words that the supporters dread. Native Apps. If your problem did not match the things that Javascript was good at, you were completely out of luck. Every other platform has a way of writing your app in different languages. The iphone has native swift and cocoa, plus javascript, plus lua, plus a whole host of other choices. Android has java, javascript, and anything else that can be run via jni. Windows has WinRT, which doesn't offer native code, but does offer anything that can be run under the CLR -- C++, C#, Javascript, etc. Firefox OS's sticking with just javascript meant that it was hamstrung from the start, with much less ability to create apps that really stood out, leaving it to wallow in mediocrity.