> These days, it makes sense for everything I write to have a web interface.
> Most of our compiled and interpretive languages run everywhere as long as
> you don't start working with the native GUI, and there's no need to port a
> web-based GUI. There aren't any facilities that we would expect on a native
> GUI and are missing from the web these days.

Hello

So I am taking the exact opposite position. And you can quote me on that:

"Don't include a web browser in your dependencies if you write in free software." - me

The web is being encircled and captured by commercial interests.

Significant distributions with substantial technical skills (including
alpine and iirc nix/guix ?) have struggled to build, nevermind ship,
firefox binaries.

Some may call these edge cases, but I think it is a sign of what is to
come - that the "modern" web will only be available on a few platforms,
with weaponised complexity excluding the rest. One suspects the next tooth
on the ratchet will exclude open hardware for being far too "insecure" and
insufficiently DRMed to host something as important as a browser which
can access online banking.

Game theorists might notice a defect versus co-operate pattern here: If
everybody defects to the convenient choice of a web then we'll all
be stuck in the surveilled and ad-infested worst case.

Sort of related thoughts on this can be found at
https://scottrichmond.me/the-web-is-too-big/

So please do use small, exotic or long forgotten gui toolkits.
As long as their dependency graph isn't too crazy either.

regards

marc