That modern WxWidgets library would be just Electron in everything but name (because you want people to use it, so you'll have to support what people already kn

That modern WxWidgets library would be just Electron in everything but name (because you want people to use it, so you'll have to support what people already know, which is html+js) and people would abuse the abundance of resources on modern desktops just the same. Electron itself is not the problem. Awful usage of Electron is the problem. I would say Electron is the desktop equivalent of PHP. It lets people who don't know why signed left shift can invoke undefined behaviour and don't care if their code is indented with a mix of spaces and tabs, i.e. people who aren't the minutiae perfectionists that native APIs require them to be, to write dumb GUI apps in something that isn't tied to Microsoft's whims and has a learning curve reminiscent of a kiddie pool. What we need is some better linters, profilers, &c integrated in development environments used to write Electron apps, to help and inform the authors of how to write the most performant GUI possible. People won't write GUI using VisualC 6 + MFC ever again, I see it as best to just meet them halfway.