Oh, I&#x27;m writing web apps myself, but Gods, am I hating myself for it. OS integration is somewhere between a nightmare and impossible – and yes, it <i>is</i> desirable, unless you&#x27;re on like Gnome 3 –, the resource requirements are abysmal (400 MB for an app that consists of a single input form, a table, and a search field, really Chrome?), performance is actually pretty lacklustre (non-blocking is one thing, actual multithreading another!), the UI isn&#x27;t actually all that nice if you want to <i>use</i> it, not just look at it (say goodbye to accessibility; hell, even just proper keyboard navigation is black magic for most frameworks); and if you ship the engine yourself, you&#x27;re now responsible for orchestrating and shipping bi-weekly browser updates to your customers to make sure your browser engine stays patched.<p>Is all that bullshit really worth… whatever we&#x27;re saving? (Our company is mainly saving in developer salaries, because we can force kids fresh out of school to work for minimum wage, instead of hiring experienced developers… we&#x27;ll see how long this keeps working.)