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This! I don't particularly care what technology people use to write apps, so long as it works well. As others in this thread have said, you can immediately spot a web-app-pretending-to-be-native because it doesn't work well.

QML appears to offer the best of both worlds - I don't understand why it isn't more popular?

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Qt's C++ heritage, I'd assume. That, and I really didn't like Qt Creator, when I last tried to play with it a few years ago. In addition, "package management" for libraries as per `npm` and it's ilk is a non-starter, though I believe there was something on HN attempting to fix that for Qt recently.

Qt's C++ heritage isn't any more relevant than WebKit's C++ heritage. I agree that the ecosystem needs to improve, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

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