I mean for some applications you're going to gave to have a desktop app, particularly anything that communicates with external devices or most OS related compon

I mean for some applications you're going to gave to have a desktop app, particularly anything that communicates with external devices or most OS related components. Although the ways people will convince themselves otherwise are pretty comical. I had written a desktop app that communicated with a card scanning device via a simple protocol over a serial port. Someone proceeded to tell me that desktop apps in 201X are bad. They told me the preferred alternative was to write a webserver that did the serial port communication and also served a web based UI which seemed ridiculous at best.