> I doubt there will ever be an HTML5 standard for low-level disk access. It's clear you've never worked with Electron; nothing about its system-level access h

> I doubt there will ever be an HTML5 standard for low-level disk access. It's clear you've never worked with Electron; nothing about its system-level access has anything to do with HTML5 or related standards. All of that lives in NodeJS, which offers reasonably low-level APIs for accessing system resources. For cases where that's not enough Node can easily call out to logic written in other languages, either directly through FFI (foreign function interfaces) or by spinning up an independent binary via the shell. This is the problem with this discourse: the vast majority of the Electron haters are people who have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to the actual thing they're criticizing. It's particularly hypocritical when they go so far as to frame "JavaScript hipsters" as some combination of ignorant, inexperienced, and/or lazy.