You can have your cake and eat it too. If you have to build a native desktop app, you can use Chromium Embedded Framework. Spotify is one of its biggest users.

You can have your cake and eat it too. If you have to build a native desktop app, you can use Chromium Embedded Framework. Spotify is one of its biggest users. You can still build your UI in HTML but drive it with native code (C++, Objective-C, C#, etc). We used CEF when we realized how painful Win32 C++ WTL desktop UI was.