> PDF has a lot of features, but it’s not complicated. I'm not sure about, Acrobat reader in particular is very complicated, I'll rehash a famous old reddit co

> PDF has a lot of features, but it’s not complicated. I'm not sure about, Acrobat reader in particular is very complicated, I'll rehash a famous old reddit comment -- Acrobat doesn't just read PDFs, it's a mail server, document lifecycle management system, DRM client, full-fledged document tracking system, it can have forms, it can gather statistics for your docs when you share them, it has audio and video playback. The manual is a couple thousand pages. Adobe's proposition to businesses is "You want a complete content tracking system? Wanna be able to effortlessly conduct surveys? Get next-level telemetry data from your users? Have we got the thing for you... the best part is all of your clients already have it installed!" So good on you for ditching Adobe and not enabling this bull, SumatraPDF/emac's pdf-tools is perfect. Regarding native GUI toolkits, they work but they're more work than Electron to deal with. Secondly, the big thing that us nerds keep failing to recognize is that software needs to be easy to use for grandmas and grandpas, part of that means having consistency in UI for users across the board from one system to the other. See how Zoom is nearly identical when using on iPad or Windows 7 or even Linux? Couldn't pull that off with GTK. I think with Qt you can modify your widgets quite a bit but you still don't have control over the minutiae of UI like you do with Electron. Don't get me wrong it is still the wrong choice many times; the abomination that is MS Teams and Spotify is a flagrant violation of good taste and should be set on fire and nuked out of the fucking orbit, it is a heinous crime especially for big companies with the means to arrange large teams to build and deploy apps made with non-WebView-based frameworks, but for small shops I don't see any issue with Electron's use. VSCode launches instantaneously on my M2 Macbook Air. Zoom works flawlessly, along with a host of other Electron-based apps. I don't care too much if it's using some CPU here and there if I can't discern any slowness. Anyway, apps made with Tauri are much better in terms of CPU and memory usage, 1Password moved from Electron and Tauri and I'm certain more will follow and the next wave of desktop apps will surely be speedier now that Electron's slowness has become a bit of a meme.