As if web/css wasn't a new gui library no one asked for. Peak programming was VB6 & Delphi 6 (maybe 7). Everything after that was just treading water in increasingly degenerate ways.
Eh. Web is the best write-once-run-everywhere we've achieved so far, especially with the proliferation of WASM. I'd be lying if I said it was perfect, but it's better than Java.
