There are two sides to this. In the Electron case, it’s wasteful to some degree. Especially if the app is not doing much with files/storage etc. For VSCode it

There are two sides to this. In the Electron case, it’s wasteful to some degree. Especially if the app is not doing much with files/storage etc. For VSCode it makes sense to not run in the browser but for Slack, not so much. But generally I feel like there’s too much overlap between OS, browsers, IDEs and language runtimes (JVM, V8/Node etc.). It gets worse if you add containers and VMs. I wonder how many garbage collectors, file abstractions, JITs, databases, schedulers, GUI engines, indexers and so on are running on my machine. How many flavors and versions of essentially the same libraries are used. There is no unified vision, of what an OS/runtime/IDE/browser should be. There’s not even a common understanding!