The recurring tragedy of UI toolkits... The fact we have a near-universal UI language (HTML/CSS) and a basic scripting language (JS) that we can't use as an in

The recurring tragedy of UI toolkits... The fact we have a near-universal UI language (HTML/CSS) and a basic scripting language (JS) that we can't use as an intermediate language for compilation to native UI is a tragedy. And I'm not talking about every nook and corner of JS and HTML and CSS. It's even more ridiculous that MS didn't use their HTML5 + JS framework they made for Windows 8/10. But the Office team is almost completely independent from Windows politically since they make so much money.