[ateesdalejr]

I'd have to agree. :) Many of these new technologies like electron and node are more RAM hogs than anything else. Sure they boost productivity but you need a really high end laptop with at least 8GB of RAM to run anything smoothly.

[agmcleod]

C is neither here nor there. Really anything compiling down to the platform code would improve things. Running a browser environment for these applications is just not as efficient. But also the UI tooling outside of web is also not very good. While you're right about productivity, we also just happen to have a large workforce that knows the webstack very well, but not so much QT or UWP or AppKit.