I am from India and pretty sure the reason here is it's much easier to make UIs in flutter than in Android native. Nothing specific to India being a developing country.
It's natural to see students using easier stuff as well. Most of student projects you come across is using react, flutter, firebase, MongoDB, as opposed to Angular/Vue, Android native/Jetpack, postgresql etc.. which have much higher barrier to entry.
But this may have to do with developing countries having more recent developers, and less established developers.
Early C compilers were not optimising compilers. The hardware was very limited.
Although I would agree it was possible to design the language much better to avoid Null, most buffer overflows etc.., C was not designed to be good from PL standpoint. It was designed to write something and then evolved.
Same for issues like diversity hiring and SJWs irritating well-running open source projects. I say this as a left leaning person. Politics and religion tend to divide people thus they have to be kept away, it won't harm anyone but self important non-technical idiots who think renaming master to main will change the life of oppressed people.
There is politics as in FSF / GNU and there is politics as in Mozilla. Lot of mozilla activism is not relevant to privacy / open web. Not to mention it also limits many people from donating to them.
Do you use an ad blocker like UBlock Origin? That speeds up web by significant margin. I also used that to disable JS by default and enable only when needed, works well for me.
I am tired of wasm hype. Can someone explain what it does so well than existing cross platform solutions like CLR / JVM? It doesn't yet have a GC nor is most efficient for that matter. And JIT is not efficient in terms of memory and power compared to native code.
It is because you want to hire inexpensive web developers to develop for desktop and get the check box ticked. Your average bootcamp webshit doesn't even know Big O notation. I don't expect them to be as productive as good developers either.
The web ecosystem is a big mess where trends change every month and working in web ecosystem requires looking up things a lot because no one bothers to master the thing. It doesn't help that many web developers don't have solid foundations.
This is a trap managers generally fall into. Cheap developers aren't equivalent to competent developers, and their incompetence will cost you more than what you save by hiring them instead of a competent developer.