Here are some more reasons to pick a technology: Familiarity, knowledge transfer is a big drive for technology adoption. The bad bit is when the decision maker

Here are some more reasons to pick a technology: Familiarity, knowledge transfer is a big drive for technology adoption. The bad bit is when the decision maker leaves the team and the rest are unfamiliar with the tech. I think this applies to Electron pretty well as web developers can now contribute. The "it would look good on my CV". I'm thinking about Kubernetes where it doesn't make sense to use most of the time but everybody wants to be doing it because it's hot.