> Imagine if I were to write a 'next-gen' CAD program or an alternative 3D modeling program in Electron. I'm not so sure if the manufacturing or the games indus

> Imagine if I were to write a 'next-gen' CAD program or an alternative 3D modeling program in Electron. I'm not so sure if the manufacturing or the games industry would take a second look at that. But in our industry, it is seen as normal for our text editors, ide's, git clients and video editing software and our messaging clients to be expensive in memory and cpu time. Specialized industry software have a (moderate) liberty of picking a platform. They can say that they work only on Windows, or Mac, or a flavor of Unix if necessary, based on various market factors and major clients. They can atleast release for one major platform, and hold out for other platforms until they are really big enough. On the other hand, general purpose software (editors, messaging, etc) – they need to be everywhere. Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac – at the very least. Because users already are multi-device. Even in the best case, a single user wants his/her important apps to sync between phone and laptop. Your general purpose app is dead on arrival if it does not support atleast two platforms. Comparing these two is like apples and oranges.