Website as GUI

Who the fuck creates an application as a locally hosted website?
Are GUIs really that hard to program that you need to create a whole web application to avoid building one?
Fuck you, Ruby programmers.

GUIs are actually the most unrewarding programming task. A web page front end is also much lighter because browsers and all its libraries are already loaded on a users machine. The overhead of a statically linked web server is less than that of GTK or the like.