If you basically agree with the parent post, why do you say it's nonsense? > The underlying issue here is that Electron reduces the barrier to entry for cross-

If you basically agree with the parent post, why do you say it's nonsense? > The underlying issue here is that Electron reduces the barrier to entry for cross-platform development. Precisely. > The trade-off — and there is a trade-off — is that Electron applications are shite in comparison with proper native applications. But native applications are shite in terms of portability. > But let's be honest here – there is nothing preventing e.g. Spotify or Slack from building native clients for each platform they support See the part where the original post said "it's massively expensive, both in terms of actual dev time per feature (easily 10x the cost), and also in finding specialist developers who know these dated technologies". The costs may not be "prohibitive", but they certainly would multiply effort and resources, and divide profit.