With the limitations (and also the contempt that many programmers, including me, have for javascript) one would have thought that we would have seen a mushrooming of apps built with Python-Webkit. Rather the project seems dead now.
What went wrong with it?
(Python Webkit DOM Bindings - https://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit/ ).
Same thing for backend developers learning the front end the first time. Ecosystem and community matter for adoption