If anything, the problem with Electron is that it takes the wrong approach to lowering the entry barrier to application development. Rather than forcing develop

If anything, the problem with Electron is that it takes the wrong approach to lowering the entry barrier to application development. Rather than forcing developers to come up with more user-friendly programming languages and UI toolkits, Electron takes the easy way out and bends HTML and JavaScript into a hugely overweight kludge to accomplish things it was never really designed for. The result? Fat applications that take up lots of resources, poor user experience that doesn't match the native look-and-feel of the OS, and a huge surface for problems or security vulnerabilities. (Just the other day I was tweeting to the developer of an Electron app when I discovered that their simple chat app was linking to CoreMIDI on macOS - what exactly for?!) I still recoil a little bit when I look at the DOM of the average Electron application, because it's horrendous and scary and HTML still is not the correct tool for the job, no matter how much people try. I'm glad that it is inspiring people to create, but in doing so we're teaching new developers bad practice.