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Every single platform has their 1-line hello world example. iOS has storyboards, Windows has XAML, Linux has QT components. The point is that Electron is cross

Every single platform has their 1-line hello world example. iOS has storyboards, Windows has XAML, Linux has QT components. The point is that Electron is cross platform. Building three different native apps with completely different UI toolkits is a huge amount of work and depends on much less common skillsets.

jarjoura 9y ago
Sure, until you hit a wall with the sandbox. Then you will have to write native code to enable features only available on the platform that the application is run on.
- cageface 9y ago
  Maybe but the UI is the lion's share of the code for most of these apps so you start way ahead.