Well writing in languages for native code is still just as popular, and we're moving in such a direction to allow for the same application to be available both

Well writing in languages for native code is still just as popular, and we're moving in such a direction to allow for the same application to be available both on the web and on your machine. The pure-Javascript approach to offering the same is to package a browser with a web-app and disguise this as a standalone application, which is ass-backwards.