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Because a vast number of mediocre JavaScript developers can suddenly easily port their mediocre web apps to the desktop, and because companies love the "only on

• ilikehurdles 7y ago
  The native desktop application has been replaced for all but the most complex and inertia-driven established behemoths. Was there technical merit in moving desktop applications to the browser in the first place throughout the 2000s? In most cases: no. All of the functionality of the web interfaces could have been written as more performant native desktop analogues, but it's 2019 now and starting on the web is the defacto default while making a desktop application is the exception.
• afiori 7y ago
  Being mediocre has nothing to do with it. Also portability from a popular platform is a technical merit. That Qt is better on its own is also a merit, but not the only one.