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> Many languages have all of that tooling and more. For example C# and Java.

Instant hot reloading? Runtime introspection into apps, and into strucutre of the apps, direct view into what the app sends over the network etc.? Open up development tools in your favorite browser, you'll be surprised :)

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Well, java in debug mode can hot swap class methods, for what it worth.

But the web is definitely the most used “GUI framework” ever, so there is no competition with that on tooling ground, even if there is nothing inherently that would block it, as a dom inspection is pretty easy to implement - just print out the tree of ui nodes.

Don't know of current state but Blazor should check most of them.

Because Balzor piggy-backs the existing web tools ;)

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