I&#x27;m someone who&#x27;s cut his teeth developing desktop apps the &#x27;old&#x27; way and came rather late to the whole modern web-development thing.  And I have to say that going zero to a good enough prototype app is dramatically easier with web based stuff in most cases.  Sure going from good enough to a polished high performing product can often be a massive pain, but that&#x27;s a different story.