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There are some cloud providers that are starting to offer wasm support. Docker is currently working on wasm https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/ There is also krustlet https://krustlet.dev/ which lets you run wasm in kubernetes
With the recent work AWS has done around snapshotting you can launch a VM in less than a second.
Lightweight node.js-free alternatives to Electron are already gaining traction, for example https://tauri.app/ – but you need to learn Rust to make full use of it – a daunting proposition for many developers.
Can't argue with that, but to me it seems that things have substantially deteriorated since desktop GUIs fell out of fashion. Maybe that tells you more about my age than about the state of the art, but in the 90's one could "learn" GUI programming in about 30min in a RAD tool by throwing controls in containers and implementing callback functions in "direct style" for the event (Qt , swing, Java/ScalaFX, Gtk, Forms, delphi, …), or do all that in code instead, with objects representing components and inheritance/OOP doing wonders to encapsulate state, expose a type-safe discoverable API, and offer customizability through members override. Entire generations of corporate monks made visually and functionally convincing business apps with VBA in an afternoon for instance.