I use Gmail and other web apps, because I&#x27;m accessing remote data through them, and running remote apps to do so is a good idea IMO. However, I think &quot;the Web&quot; is not a good platform for native-like apps. It&#x27;s not only slow and resource-hungry (I can edit pictures and video reasonably, yet web apps still stutter and hang up), it was also never designed for app GUIs. HTML is a nice text markup language, but it was never meant for GUIs. CSS is nice for styling text, but it&#x27;s now used for much more. Layout is torn between HTML and CSS. And web apps don&#x27;t &quot;fit in&quot; with their appearance, and I value consistency in desktop apps a lot. With Qt&#x2F;GTK, I can change a system-wide theme, and all apps will fit in with each other, which is something web apps can&#x27;t offer.
And while creating new frameworks may help programmers, it doesn&#x27;t solve the fundamental issue that the web is not meant for native-esque apps.