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> for building a UI I would actually personally choose something JavaScript-based

The author does address this at [0]. Their main arguments are that web-based stuff is slow and requires lots of memory, especially when making something which runs outside a web browser.

[0] https://billydm.github.io/blog/daw-frontend-development-stru...



Yeah so one tech stack I worked with was EFL with JavaScript bindings. That was fast and compact, even the JS stuff.




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