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There was a rumour that with Edge going to chromium MS wants to make the engine available on windows so that electron on windows wouldn't need to ship with a co

• topspin 8y ago
  Given that Microsoft recently acquired the primary Electron developer, GitHub, that concept seems plausible. And I have a difficult time finding fault with it. You see endless 'concerns' about Electron resource usage. What you don't find are complaints that it's unstable, or that it only works on some desktops, or that it's hard to understand or use. It's solid, it works on all desktops and it's about as easy to use as such a thing can be for contemporary full stack developers. For better or worse I think the whinging about resource usage isn't going to hinder Electron much.