SWT (the eclipse widget toolkit) takes this approach. It's very difficult to maintain API compatibility with the myriad browser versions out there, not to ment

SWT (the eclipse widget toolkit) takes this approach. It's very difficult to maintain API compatibility with the myriad browser versions out there, not to mention having the content in those browser windows display reliably. The real killer-feature of Electron et. al. is only having one browser version to test against. I think embedding CEF is definitely the right call.