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Because everything should be in the browser now. The actual question would be "why would you want to run something out of the browser?"


So I can control it's deployment, updates and not be at mercy if the website shuts down.


This is obviously sarcastic, because I don't think there is anyone out there who still believes the old fantasy about browsers/JS becoming the "universal platform"?


Surely it already is a universal platform. Almost all major software runs on the web / electron.




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