> It's one thing to not want to use Electron app, it's another to say no one should use them. It rubs me the wrong way. There are a lot of things I'd never use,

> It's one thing to not want to use Electron app, it's another to say no one should use them. It rubs me the wrong way. There are a lot of things I'd never use, but they don't rile me to that level. The reason this trend riles me so much is that we now have companies like Slack, which easily have enough resources to do an efficient desktop app on any platform they choose, releasing utter garbage that, far from merely wasting memory, takes up ridiculous amounts of CPU time (and therefore battery time and energy) to do the simplest things (like render emoji, or even a blinking cursor). The aggregate waste of resources is mind boggling, and we've gone far past the point where Electron was solely used as a quick solution for very resource constrained companies or single devs. > "Laziness and cost cutting" is just your label for trade-offs you don't agree with. That would apply to cross-platform Java/Swing apps or Gnome. The "technically literate" users don't have to worry about business considerations and engineering tradeoffs - the authors do. If memory usage is such a big deal, then the market will self-correct, I was told it's a meritocracy. It certainly does apply to Swing apps, Qt, Gnome, etc. I've always considered all three of those frameworks ludicrously bloated, by the way, but Electron has far exceeded my worst nightmares in that regard. I'm not sure who told you the market is a meritocracy or why you believe it, but I don't see much evidence for that view, personally.