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> why is there a group of people that [want to wrap everything] in HTML/CSS/JS

I believe you already know the answer to your own question, because to be honest I think the answer is pretty obvious; but in case you are actually curious about the answer here is what I think (mostly sarcasm, don't expect much):

The majority of people making these applications are web developers who are frustrated by the difficulty of learning one or more of the popular GUI libraries available in the market (Cocoa, QT, GTK, etc), they found Node-Webkit and then Electron and realized that they could target desktop users using the same stack they have been using so far (HTML + CSS + JavaScript). Since they are web developers and many of them were originally designers, it is makes sense to think that they can make shiny websites to attract people into trying their projects.

I think most of these programmers just want to show up, try this new Electron thing, and get acknowledged by other people. I don't think they believe their applications are actually good because it is obvious that they are not (as in this case). As much as I hate this trend of web applications disguising themselves as (native) desktop application I have to agree that Electron have allowed some people to... Hmmm, you know what? I don't think Electron has allowed anyone (with the exception of GitHub) to accomplish anything, fuck that trend.

[eberkund]

Well there's Slack and VS Code just off the top of my head

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Slack started as a website, then created the desktop and mobile clients, so if I stick to my statement "accomplish anything" I would still keep Slack out of the list because the "desktop" client does not provides anything special over the original web interface. About Visual Studio Code, I don't know what have Microsoft accomplished with that project yet, but I will give you a point for that just because.