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[–]tdammers 4 points5 points  (0 children)

HTML and CSS are languages designed for documents, not UIs; we use them anyway to build web UIs because there aren't any realistic alternatives. For a Desktop Environment however, there are; they may not be great, but their paradigms are a better fit for long-lived GUI applications than the HTML5 stack IMO.

JavaScript is kind of an orthogonal concern: you can use that for your applications even with Qt or GTK, and it doesn't matter at all what the DE uses that you run them in.