[injuly]

Web programmers massively outnumber systems programmers. The market has been this way for quite some time now. I'm not a web programmer myself, at least not professionally, but it is far too easy to prototype with Electron/Electrino/Tauri/whatever than any other toolchain out there. I've used Xamarin, Qt, ImGui (not the same league, I know), and several other lower-level rendering libraries like SDL, SFML, raylib, GLFW. Nothing comes close to the vast expanse of features that CSS exposes with - often - a single attribute like `transform` or `object-fit`. Of course you can do it with any other language/framework, but it'll be dozens more lines of code. More time. This is assuming equal proficiency in both tech stacks.

JavaScript might be a disaster of a language, but it is faster to make a UI with CSS. I can totally see why startups pick web programming to ship desktop apps.