[toyg]

> while web tech was a terrible stack it was at least stable.

No no no. Web tech was/is terrible, but it's dirt cheap. You can hire JS hacks by the boatload, and retrofit whatever they build into an electron app relatively easily. Whereas desktop developers are few and expensive, and they tend to optimise for this or that platform or toolkit.

Electron didn't win on quality or features - it won on the back of commercial realities of the development world.

[KptMarchewa]

I don't think 'desktop' devs are any more expensive or cheaper. There's definitely way less of them and majority of people who know stuff like Win32 APIs are either very specialized or working on games.

[toyg]

Basic supply and demand dictates than, being fewer, they would command higher prices. Which they did, until JS ate the world.

[numpad0]

Can’t set up a sweatshop as a school and have students pay to work on Win32 apps.

[KptMarchewa]

That's what a lot of companies did 10-15 years ago in Poland. Sometimes it was Delphi. Of course, the applications were shitty, but also a lot of web is shitty.