> whenever i open an app that uses entirely native controls i just expect the author didn't want to invest any time into making their app look good. So much of

> whenever i open an app that uses entirely native controls i just expect the author didn't want to invest any time into making their app look good. So much of this! This is my exact sentiment, too! If you want your application to look different from the OS-provided GUI—which I think is a good thing—without investing much effort into implementing your own rendering/painting engine, the web is an excellent platform, not to mention there's much more you gain with it, too. What bothers me is that the author focuses on a few bad points of electron, whilst there are also many benefits to using it.