@staticvoidmaine @gabek@mastodon.social
there are multiple mature cross platform toolkits right now, qt, tk, gtk, etc. nobody expect maybe mac users expect that things have a consistent look (even if the toolkits got rather good at this), so even that argument isn't really cutting it anymore.
the only thing the web has over native apps is that it's the first platform where you can ship whats effectively binaries. java (and things like inferno) never succeeded. they were better at almost everything, except the fancy graphic effects department and probably more important, the crucial mistake of not having integrated downloading of new applications into their runtime.