[wg0]

I think web technologies have gone too far and too mature. The alternatives are not as much portable and approachable for some applications.

For instance, Win32 API/Swift UI/GTK would be the surface area for a cross platform application. I am not counting Qt/wxWdigets. You can tell a Qt application from a mile away.

And making an application look identical on all platforms is downright impossible. There would be noticeable differences.

[SoftTalker]

An application should not look identical on all platforms. It should instead follow the conventions of the platform.

[peheje]

Never understood this. I own Windows and Mac computers, Apple iPad and Android phone, and annoyed everytime software just doesn't look the same when I switch between platforms. Why must everything look different? That's why I love the web and web applications.