IMO, as a long-time desktop developer (occasional early mobile and web), unless you're interfacing with hardware, there is probably no reason for you to be writ

IMO, as a long-time desktop developer (occasional early mobile and web), unless you're interfacing with hardware, there is probably no reason for you to be writing a true native desktop application. At this point, even if I were writing business CRUD apps, I think I'd be reluctant to start using, say, C# and .Net, preferring some kind of packaged system allowing me to, effectively, write desktop apps using mobile languages and stacks.