I miss late 90s computing: native apps, with HTML as a document format rather than a VM. You could do interesting things outside of the google/http straightja

I miss late 90s computing: native apps, with HTML as a document format rather than a VM. You could do interesting things outside of the google/http straightjacket. But none of that matters. We have miscegenated disgusting javacript with the disgusting DOM, and we have filled the earth with it. It will be here forever! Like COBOL, but many orders of magnitude worse.