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by goatlover 3203 days ago
> I'm very into the idea of HTML/CSS/JS on the desktop

Why? there are better languages, platforms and layout engines. HTML/CSS/JS was meant to be a document markup sharing platform, not a rich application one. Use the best tool for the job.
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david-cako 3202 days ago
Graphical frameworks -- GTK? QT?

These are intertwined with the language and GTK especially does not look attractive on macOS and Windows.

The appeal to HTML/CSS/JS is it's 100% agnostic to the platform, and can even be used as a front-end to a program written in a different language.

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goatlover 3201 days ago
Sure, but Java made that claim as a platform in 1995, and it was free and open source.
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