Great article. It starts by setting forth a good basis, that I think covers almost all of the primary Electron complaints. There's a very outraged comment decry

Great article. It starts by setting forth a good basis, that I think covers almost all of the primary Electron complaints. There's a very outraged comment decrying these plus also a difficult messy dev story[1], but generally I think the article starts by outlining the criticism fairly well. After enumerating the problems with Electron, the article outlines a wide range of alternatives. This is such a great exploration! I love love love for example the idea of localhost http servers. The article discusses them! I feel differently than the author, but great & honest review: > I know this is highly subjective, but I really appreciate having a separate window for each application, along with good OS integrations such as native menu bars and dialogs. Covering up & coming webview embedders like Tauri really won me over. The author showed a deep & expansive knowledge of up & coming alternatives, that still make use of the wonderful great web platform so many folks know & enjoy: > Many projects are trying to overcome Electron’s drawbacks using this approach, such as Electrino, webview, Tauri, and many more. And it highlights that these alternatives still lack a lot of standard native integration, that it's not yet baked in anywhere near as well as Electron does: > You see, if you choose this approach, you will need to do a lot of “plumbing” yourself, as you don’t have access to any of the convenient APIs exposed by Electron. Do you want a menu bar? You have to write the low-level bindings yourself, often multiple times depending on the number of platforms you are looking to support. I'm hoping some of these up & comers continue to advance, continue to make inroads. Electron has been 100% a magic bullet for countless great apps, big and small. Is it 100% painless? No. But it's pretty damned good, and it marries good UX development to the power & capabilities of server-side technology, in pretty excellently & unique cross-platform way, and that's a really great combination. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420450