I was a mobile dev, mostly native iOS and some android/kotlin, for better than 10 years. I still maintain a dozen apps from my days as a full time consultant.

I was a mobile dev, mostly native iOS and some android/kotlin, for better than 10 years. I still maintain a dozen apps from my days as a full time consultant. Before consulting I did web dev in early 2000s when the stack was LAMP and JavaScript felt like something that would never mature into anything. Hell, I was in my late teens so the feeling was likely mutual. All this to say, good god, autolayout and storyboards and stack views. Last Friday I spent TWO HOURS troubleshooting why a UILabel wouldn’t word wrap inside two UIStackViews. I’m so grateful for electron. It’s allowed me to become an indie dev and embrace/leverage react and the entire JS ecosystem to bootstrap a successful company. My indie success would never have been possible if it wasn’t for these “inefficient” dev/deployment desktop stacks. And if they allow lowly old me to sell software to thousands of users around the world then they are doing something right. I hate to say it, but they really allow me to be 10x of what I’d be solo on mobile. Electron/React has that much potential when focused on solving a few painful tasks for my end users.