[moonshinefe]

Actually, it's far easier to write one web app that can be used on smartphones, desktop systems, tablets etc., on all platforms.

Believe it or not people actually use smartphones and tablets now, and even if you hate that and use desktop for all chatting and all repository notifications and the like, some people don't, and making stand alone GUI applications isn't helping those people.

And indeed often, just making the web app is easier than getting your app to look good natively across multiple operating systems, especially now with mobile being so prominent.