> Why don't we have a single language so that we can do cross platform development We do, we have dozens of them, C, C++, java, ruby, python, c# to name a few.

> Why don't we have a single language so that we can do cross platform development We do, we have dozens of them, C, C++, java, ruby, python, c# to name a few. We have at least a half dozen cross platform GUI toolkits to go with them, Qt, Gtk, swing, wxWidgets, tk. Pick whatever poison you want, they're all much better than electron. I suspect you're right about rust though, something newer and shinier will come along soon, if it hasn't already.