> 1) Users don't want to deal with installation. That is definitely one of the top selling points for web-based solutions, agreed. > 2) ... At each stage you

> 1) Users don't want to deal with installation. That is definitely one of the top selling points for web-based solutions, agreed. > 2) ... At each stage you can do something visible and useful BTW is this still true in 2022? My totally out-of-nothing guess would be that SAAS offerings and website builders have made people with HTML + minimal JS knowledge next to useless. > 3) Most investment goes towards companies adding value to the web, and companies that do that will tend to use web technologies first. OTOH, I have been involved in a project where the web was found to be superior to the alternatives. It does have to do a lot with (no) installation, though. A related project, OTOH, is moving their UI from Swing to the Browser. While this is just the UI, the remaining code was written in Java, not native. I think I do agree with the claims as long as Java/C#/similar get added to the "native" side of the argument, because I really see them eating C/C++'s lunch, and this is only going to accelerate with Java becoming more and more independent of a separate JVM installation. > Also important that #2 means that developers that can work on systems where web solutions can't work (things that really need C++ because of realtime requirements) are paid a substantial premium I haven't found this to be true, but my experience is limited, and it probably depends on country / region.