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Agreed. I WANT to push back against the recent trend of using Electron to build desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript, as they "don't look and feel native". Then Microsoft goes and develops a native desktop framework that looks and feels like Electron apps.

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I disagree with that, HTML/CSS/Js is by far the most widely understood paradigm for building user interfaces. There's nothing stopping apps built with these technologies looking native other than the stylistic choices of the designers.

Someone should have created a Windows.css framework for easy native design..

https://metroui.org.ua/

That's WinJS. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/develop/winjs

That's Windows 10 Universal look-and-feel, which kinda goes back to the original parent comment. You're basically using a web library to emulate a native library that emulates a web library!

At that point, I'd rather just pull the eject handle and use Twitter Bootstrap or something.

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