WinRT isn't embracing JavaScript because JS is so great, but to make the platform more attractive to web developers. Same with the HTML/CSS-style toolkits. HTM

WinRT isn't embracing JavaScript because JS is so great, but to make the platform more attractive to web developers. Same with the HTML/CSS-style toolkits. HTML/CSS, and Chrome tools, are definitely the better part of the web. The really terrible stuff are the JavaScript APIs. Of course there's JavaScript itself, which is gross. But there's no APIs for basic questions: where is the mouse pointer now? And is the mouse button down? How many screens does the user have? What is the width and height of this text? [1] Or anything Unicode-related. Or any sort of precise, pixel-accurate drawing. Web programming means resorting to terrible hacks all the time. Maybe Electron has its own JS APIs that fix those issues, I don't know. But compared to making a traditional web app, it's a relief to use a real desktop API that actually has coverage of desktop capabilities. [1] See the ridiculous lengths Atom went to just to figure out how wide a character is: http://blog.atom.io/2015/10/29/atom-1-1-is-out.html http://blog.atom.io/2015/10/29/atom-1-1-is-out.html