[MisterTea]

The web is way too heavy for simple applications. On Plan 9 devdraw text is a first class primitive - its a GUI built around displaying text.

And who said text isn't a useful medium? We are discussing how it is displayed which today is on bitmapped displays.

> The issue with GUI systems is that output != input.

Can you elaborate?

[tracker1]

I'm pretty sure you could create an HTML based calculator app pretty easily with minimal overhead. Hell monaco (editor in VS Code) is massive by comparison to most apps... there's very little reason most line of business needs and simple apps can't or shouldn't be done in browser.

You get composition, scaling, accessibility features and a host of other benefits in the box that any other toolkit for GUI adds a lot of developer overhead.