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> finding specialist developers who know these dated technologies

WPF is newer than Javascript and the DOM. Using native desktop GUI frameworks isn't some sort of ancient dark art. It's easier than web development!

>if its massive "Beatles walking off the plane" moment hasn't happened by then, sorry, it's not gonna.

The same thing applies to the quality and performance of javascript apps. Decent performance and feature parity is always just about to happen when the next iteration of the standards is implemented, but it never arrives.




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