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Depends on how much one actually bothers to look around.

Buying specialized tool, hiring C++ UI devs just to create your average HTML page and make a couple of snob tech-bros happy, great investment.

When one goes free, it gets the quality they deserve.

I guess anything goes helping Google to spread Chrome all over the place, it gives them a warm feeling.

Chromium is open source

And?

Not sure what you meant by your first sentence, but if I understand correctly - you’re just proving my point.

s/C++ UI/React/

The statement still holds. This one is just the status quo

Tooling for React is miles ahead of anything C++ UI related while being “free” and free.