Comparing the developer experience between them makes it hard to argue that HTML/CSS/JS are the right tool for building GUI apps. The awkwardness of the web 'pl

Comparing the developer experience between them makes it hard to argue that HTML/CSS/JS are the right tool for building GUI apps. The awkwardness of the web 'platform' is just huge, in comparison, even ignoring the performance issues. Atom and VSCode, for instance, have a long way to go to catch up with the real Visual Studio or IntelliJ. The real reason you're seeing apps based on Electron these days is that it's easy to hire HTML/CSS developers. That doesn't mean these are good platforms though. I remember when the bulk of apps were being written in Visual Basic because it was easy to hire VB devs (lots of people learned VBA via MS Office).