Agreed and I’d go a step further and say that this was inevitable with the advent of JavaScript. Humans are lazy (efficient?) and will always gravitate to the

Agreed and I’d go a step further and say that this was inevitable with the advent of JavaScript. Humans are lazy (efficient?) and will always gravitate to the easiest tool for the job. If “the job” is just to make a functional chat app, it becomes wildly efficient to simply wrap your web app in electron. I’ve done it to an existing web app and it took less than a day to suddenly have “native” .dmg and .exe to distribute. So when we yarn for the days of IRC, I think we should also yarn for the days when JavaScript was not the de facto language for everything which lowers the bar for development so incredibly low that you are ending up with truly garbage desktop apps that should be written in native windows SDK using C++.