[GordonS]

> You’re missing the context. The OP has created that Electron-like thing to embed into a windows-only WPF app.

I didn't miss that, I was talking in a more general sense about HTML vs WPF.

> Expression blend was, and still is, much better.

I never did actually try this properly - I had a brief play with it years ago when it first came out, but it seemed like a toy; maybe I should give it a go now it's had time to mature.

> Also JavaScript isn’t exceptionally good general-purpose programming language

No arguments there, I'm a sense-confessed JS hater ;) Typescript however, is an absolute joy to use.