Writing a Python application isn't that hard, but your frontend dev will more than likely be experienced in JS than Python+QT and push for that.
Vala could have been great as a way of making C more accessible, shame it didnt really pick up.
You can't run the most minimal current Linux kernel on a 30 year old laptop either.
Of course various client telemetry frameworks say it sucks but if no one is complaining then of course it doesn't make business sense to optimise them and carry on making it slightly worse until someone finally does moan about it.
But everything being crap is not an excuse to keep delivering more crap.
> You can't run the most minimal current Linux kernel on a 30 year old laptop either.
I wouldn't bet on that after seeing what some people have done with Gentoo.
And you only need to go back 5-10 years to find devices failing to run many websites and electron apps smoothly. My old laptop has an i7 CPU from 2016 and couldn't keep up anymore. And even on my new hardware from 2022 many things feel a bit sluggish.
Not exactly the same, but I was able to run a fairly recent version of OpenBSD (6.x) on a 486 DX2-66 with 32MB of RAM this year. Not bad for a CPU from 1992 (32 years ago).