&gt; WinRT isn&#x27;t embracing JavaScript because JS is so great, but to make the platform more attractive to web developers.<p>That may be true for WinRT, but I did not mention WinRT. XAML&#x2F;WPF were around a long time before that.<p>&gt; Same with the HTML&#x2F;CSS-style toolkits.<p>Not sure what you&#x27;re referring to but no, I don&#x27;t believe that&#x27;s true for the projects I mentioned.<p>Your complaints with JS APIs are warranted, but won&#x27;t apply to 90+% of apps. Still seems like an overall win to use Electron&#x2F;NW.js over any other option currently.