Every Electron application I've used has been sluggish and straight up pathetically slow compared to any native counterparts. I think there are two reasons its

Every Electron application I've used has been sluggish and straight up pathetically slow compared to any native counterparts. I think there are two reasons its picking up steam: * Your can now make your web devs (HTML/CSS/JS etc) do your application development as well * General popularity of web development is exploding * There's no comparable free, permissive native framework. The closest thing is Qt and its LGPL. No one wants to touch the GPL.