It's just semantics at this point.
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What a relief! The 'find an approach that works for you' mentality was one of the things that drew me to Linux in the first place.
I feel like ChromeOS and Android are examples of what you get if you go too far down the 'platform' road on top of the kernel. I've used both and I like one of them, but I'm glad that my computer isn't running either.
And that's why people end up using Electron so much nowadays. :)
It's a shame because Qt and GTK are surprisingly easy if you know C++ and C, respectively. There are also excellent bindings for other languages. IMO, they're easier than JavaScript which I have grown a deep hatred to from mostly doing web development.
Do you know a good QT tutorial? Or even better, a KDE tutorial? Because I don't know one and would like to play with writing a QT app for my KDE desktop... C++ is not the issue (although I'm not a Cpp programmer), but finding tutorials for Qt and KDE frameworks is ...
To be honest, for all its faults, I still find that the web stack is incredibly productive compared to alternatives. I wouldn't touch Js with a ten foot pole, but with ClojureScript UI development is pure joy. Interactive style development is especially huge for this I find since you often want to build up some state and then play with the presentation. Having to restart the app, and navigate to a particular state to see the change gets tedious really fast. I'd love to see something comparable with native stacks.
I need to learn Clojure sometime.
I really can't recommend it enough, it's really one of the most enjoyable languages I've used. Here are some starting materials that could come in handy if you do get around to it, I put it together from stuff we use for onboarding for my team https://gist.github.com/yogthos/be323be0361c589570a6da4ccc85f58f