[freehunter]

But the quote specifically calls out desktop UIs. HTML&JS might be standard for UIs, but what about specifically desktop UIs? Not everyone has the option of putting their UI on the web.

[tracker1]

Cordova, node-webkit, atom-shell, windows8 ui, gnome ui, etc... All offer options to target html+js to a platform user interface.

[c0brac0bra]

I recently did a project with node-webkit and edge.js. There were some hurdles but it ended up working pretty well.

I get to use the both the same HTML-based UI on the web part and the desktop app, as well as the compiled .NET libraries.