I've read through the comments but no one pointed out the main reason people go with Electron: availability of JavaScript / HTML frameworks for... everything. O

I've read through the comments but no one pointed out the main reason people go with Electron: availability of JavaScript / HTML frameworks for... everything. Oh, you want a sortable editable grid with custom rendering: here, chose from these 3000 libraries. Oh, you want to do that with Qt? Here's a 7-year old forum question with some vague responses that no longer apply to the latest version and only solve 10% of the requirements. Good luck with that! I can see a professional company with a large development team (and custom solutions / framework) going with Qt. But for a casual developer (or even a startup) there's no way they'd tie themselves to that boulder. Don't get me wrong, I love C++ and I hate how Electron craps all over my machine resources but when it comes to ease of development, bootstrap, and cost of iterations they're not even in the same ballpark. I wish ReactNative became an actual thing (with proper mac / win32 bindings, and lots of community support for frameworks / libraries), but alas, we're not there yet.