It already is. For example, on Arch Linux, Electron is packaged as a separate binary and the eg. VS Code binary is just a shell script that points electron to t

It already is. For example, on Arch Linux, Electron is packaged as a separate binary and the eg. VS Code binary is just a shell script that points electron to the right entrypoint #!/bin/bash ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 exec electron9 /usr/lib/code/out/cli.js /usr/lib/code/code.js "$@" But most Electron apps prefer to bundle the whole runtime with their app.