It wasn't FOSS that settled on Electron - it was businesses and corporations. Decisions were taken with an eye to balance sheets and P&L reports; Electron rema

It wasn't FOSS that settled on Electron - it was businesses and corporations. Decisions were taken with an eye to balance sheets and P&L reports; Electron remains the cheapest option of them all, because the supply of moderately-skilled HTML/JS labor is naturally larger than for any other language - all thanks to choices the Netscape Corporation made in 1995, when they needed interactivity in their product and they needed it quick.