> But wasn't this the promise with JavaScript already, a Turing-complete language in the browser to end the need for more features of HTML?
The problem is javascript sucks. We want to be able to write any kind of application, but we don't want to have to do it in javascript. Ideally, this would mean that you pick Java or C# instead and use one of several cross-platform UI frameworks, but I've never found a native UI framework that was as easy to work with as HTML. If C# would just let us write native UI with HTML and CSS (and not just using electron), then I would never write a webapp again
The problem is javascript sucks. We want to be able to write any kind of application, but we don't want to have to do it in javascript. Ideally, this would mean that you pick Java or C# instead and use one of several cross-platform UI frameworks, but I've never found a native UI framework that was as easy to work with as HTML. If C# would just let us write native UI with HTML and CSS (and not just using electron), then I would never write a webapp again