My bet is on there being less friction at the onset. How quickly can you get a cross-platform prototype up as a web app vs Qt? I'd also wager there are more C+

My bet is on there being less friction at the onset. How quickly can you get a cross-platform prototype up as a web app vs Qt? I'd also wager there are more C++ pitfalls than JS pitfalls (or at least the JS ones are less severe/obscure). A less experienced engineer would be able to better maintain the web app than the C++ one IMO. This increases the bus factor. The people who make the decisions care more about those things than the layers and layers of expensive abstractions that prop up web technologies, and how much electricity/battery life that consumes in aggregate. I'm working in game dev. Most of our tools are native UI or in-engine. The heaviness of web apps frustrates me a great deal, but I get why things exist the way they do.