and also that one: >Why not Electron? > The first reason is performance. JS is a great language for building UI, but it is much slower than JVM. Wasm can be f

and also that one: >Why not Electron? > The first reason is performance. JS is a great language for building UI, but it is much slower than JVM. Wasm can be fast but implies C++ or Rust. > The second is the DOM. It is a horrible collection of hacks that make simple things hard and hard things impossible. I have thought many times “if only was I drawing this control/layout directly, I would’ve finished hours ago.” > That means there’s a very low ceiling, performance-wise and quality-wise, of what a web app can do. I believe we can, and should, do better. > Electron taught us two good things, though: > People crave for native apps. Nobody wants to work from the browser. People don’t care if apps don’t look native to the platform as long as they look good. Regarding Electron, I think we "should" start to talking about more like "Browser Apps for Desktop" instead of just "Desktop Apps" which is broad term.