I don't think the implication you're making here is valid. In Electron you're forced to use JavaScript or a compile-to-JavaScript language. In the desktop it's

I don't think the implication you're making here is valid. In Electron you're forced to use JavaScript or a compile-to-JavaScript language. In the desktop it's pretty much the same deal but with C. And we've been doing C FFI since way before JavaScript was conceived.