> using the web as an application delivery platform that works cross platform Therein lies the problem, understandable as it is. If you're using React (or any

> using the web as an application delivery platform that works cross platform Therein lies the problem, understandable as it is. If you're using React (or any other modern UI/MVw/whatever for that matter), you're still describing your app as mutating a grossly inappropriate scene graph of divs and spans held together with CSS tricks when your conceptual model is probably more adequately represented in terms of panels, fields, and canvases. On top of that, you pick about the weakest language out there, and over the course of decades, morph it into becoming more like a real programming language with runtime type info, accidental async patterns, decorators, compilation pipelines and whatnot, giving up the two benefits that JavaScript has, namely ubiquity and running OOTB on browsers by simple page reloading.