The casual dismissal of the complaints from their customers really rubs me the wrong way. For sure, technical people know what Electron is and many have a bias

The casual dismissal of the complaints from their customers really rubs me the wrong way. For sure, technical people know what Electron is and many have a bias against it. But the bias isn't irrational, it's driven by very real needs. The author is right in that a non-technical person won't know what Electron is and when their computer becomes slow and hot or runs out of battery more quickly, they will not know where to lay the blame. They might think, as many members of my family love to tell me, that their computer battery is just "way too old" and "never lasts long", or that Windows "is so slow, is Linux any faster?" I can run a couple of Electron applications and I do often. My office uses Slack, so I run that all the time. There are a couple others I need here and there and when they are all running at the same time, my laptop gets warm, the fan switches into high gear and soon I'm reaching for a power adapter. If I'm at an airport or traveling I can decide that I'm not running these applications and lengthen my battery life. Electron is a compromise and I understand that. What I wouldn't be keen on is a situation where everything I do is an Electron app. Someone had a nice resource monitor that looked really neat, but it was an Electron application. I liked the look but I can't afford to add that application to my power/memory/CPU budget just 'cause it looks cool. My point is this: I don't think it's a good idea to simply sweep away a segment of customer complaints because those customers happen to know what Electron is and notice the effects on their machines. As more Electron apps come to market, literally fewer will be able to share a customer's laptop or workstation. Atom and VS Code have already staked out some critical ground, their customers simply will not give them up. That leaves that much less room for other Electron apps and given the speed with which these apps are appearing, that space is going to be crowded and contentious.