In retrospect, and looking at the state of the modern web development ecosystem...The idea of HTA files is better and makes more sense when it comes to web development. It is also more optimal than Electron files, as HTA files share the same rendering engine, which allows for smaller file sizes. Each Electron application has an instance of Chromium, which is counterproductive because each application weighs an average of 200MB. Developing an HTA application is 1000x simpler because it doesn't require any previous setup. It's a shame that HTA has been left behind; it would definitely have been the right decision over Electron.
yeah HTA was so good, I especially liked how you could save an HTA script as an image and upload it to 4chan telling retards to rename the extension and run it and flood 4chan with autospamming bots with unsandboxed access to your computer
most web developers know very little about web development, and most desktop and/or mobile application developers know more about web development than actual programming. since it was obvious a couple decades ago that the web was just going to become webdevs' code drawing shit on the screen, the industry should have settled on something akin to webassembly, rather than forcing it all into the shape of js libraries and domfuckery. smaller ported desktop applications would fall out of this for free, probably.thank you for reading my unstructured opinion.
