"Webtech's (Electron, specifically) the only reason cross-platform desktop GUI programs are now cheap & easy enough to be viable" "Well, no, we've had that for

"Webtech's (Electron, specifically) the only reason cross-platform desktop GUI programs are now cheap & easy enough to be viable" "Well, no, we've had that for a long time, especially if you consider the performance compromises of Electron or in-browser 'apps' to exist within the acceptable range. Electron does make mimicking this year's UI trends as easy on the desktop as on the Web, and doing so on every platform at once, and that was hard before." "Right, but do those earlier solutions support the web as a platform?" "... huh?" See why I'm confused about where you're taking this? It's like someone claimed that airplanes were the only way to travel by machine, and I pointed out that, for one thing, trains existed before that, and now you're asking me if trains can fly. No—and, again, obviously so unless we've got some seriously different life experience, here—but that's... a complete non-sequitur to the conversation already in progress.