It depends on the kinds of applications you want to write. Web has a more limited (but growing) feature set, and its distribution system is phenomenal. Web deve

It depends on the kinds of applications you want to write. Web has a more limited (but growing) feature set, and its distribution system is phenomenal. Web development can be as clean or as messy as you want, but that's driven more by requirements than anything. Putting text and images on a page can be clean and simple, or you can go overboard and use thousands of libraries to display your 5kb of text.