Only web developers that have never actually written desktop apps think that in my experience. The prevalence of hacks, frameworks and layers that try to make t

Only web developers that have never actually written desktop apps think that in my experience. The prevalence of hacks, frameworks and layers that try to make the web stack marginally less terrible suggest that no, they don't like html, css and javascript - they deal with them because they have no other choice and it's all they've ever known. Just take SASS as an example. Why does it exist?