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by gernb 1366 days ago
I choose it for portability. I can ship to my users today, work on new features for all users, or I can spend 3-4-5-6 months dealing with differences in platforms, differences in tooling, build environments, deployment, etc....

I also it choose is because as a programmer it's far easier IMO to make a web tech app look good than a native app. CSS, Unicode text, emoji, images, video, canvas, webgl, it's all easy, portable, and batteries included, vs the various platform specific ways of providing those features.