During the 2000s Windows (and probably Mac but I didnt use it back then) made it way more difficult than it should be to quickly write GUI apps and allow them t

During the 2000s Windows (and probably Mac but I didnt use it back then) made it way more difficult than it should be to quickly write GUI apps and allow them to be ran on multiple platforms. For obvious reasons given the time it was just another way to lock developers and their users on to a platform. Given this environment the market shifted towards the web as a way of handling this and now it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to revert back to OS specific APIs.