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>> > HTML/CSS/JS is considered 'hackable' because it's widely understood by today's semi-power-user audience

> I think that's related to the high fault-tolerance in Javascript.

Also, in Electron apps you can access the Chromium Dev Tools directly in the app (unless the app author has disabled it). Chromium's Dev Tools are pretty much the gold-standard for hacking during runtime.

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> Chromium's Dev Tools are pretty much the gold-standard for hacking during runtime

... if you don't include any IDE with a built-in debugger.

Chromium dev tools essentially IS an IDE with a built-in debugger. You can set breakpoints, step over/into/out of code, monitor network requests, view/edit the DOM tree, edit CSS in real time... For some code, you can even edit it while it's executing. Plus it exposes a REPL at window scope.

SmallTalk and Lisp would have something to say about that.

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