I've been on both sides of this issue. A few months back, I needed to put together a frontend for a rest app on the local network, that my boss could use withou

I've been on both sides of this issue. A few months back, I needed to put together a frontend for a rest app on the local network, that my boss could use without needing to touch the command line. I'm a fairly novice programmer, but I was able to go from never having written a desktop GUI program, to having a functioning (if not particularly functional) product, in less than a business day, which I doubt would've been possible with even something like Qt. It's incredibly easy to build an app with Electron, and I'd encourage curmudgeons to give it a shot one weekend, if only to appreciate how seductive your opposition is. On the other hand, my laptop is an aging, refurbished Windows rig with a tiny SSD and all the energy efficiency of a stately Victorian mansion. I really can't afford to run anything Chromium-based when I'm on battery, which keeps me from using any of this generation of slick notes apps (e.g. Collate, whose dev is elsewhere in the thread.) What's more, there are almost no Electron apps where you can choose the installation location (VS Code is once again the exception, proving that it is possible), and the cavalier attitude of some devs when asked about this ([0]) drives me up the wall. So VS Code (and my own toy app) are the only Electron programs on my computer, and I don't see that changing in the near future. [0] https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/7504 https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/7504 - One example of this attitude