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Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by goatlover on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:42PM (#15223482)
> I'm very into the idea of HTML/CSS/JS on the desktop

Why? there are better languages, platforms and layout engines. HTML/CSS/JS was meant to be a document markup sharing platform, not a rich application one. Use the best tool for the job.

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Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by david-cako on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:27PM (#15233514)
Graphical frameworks -- GTK? QT?

These are intertwined with the language and GTK especially does not look attractive on macOS and Windows.

The appeal to HTML/CSS/JS is it's 100% agnostic to the platform, and can even be used as a front-end to a program written in a different language.

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Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by goatlover on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:29PM (#15244588)
Sure, but Java made that claim as a platform in 1995, and it was free and open source.
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