Framing it as “dogmatism” is unfair. Most people just try to see what the various tradeoffs are between alternatives. For desktop apps, we’re talking about Ele

Framing it as “dogmatism” is unfair. Most people just try to see what the various tradeoffs are between alternatives. For desktop apps, we’re talking about Electron versus, say, Qt, Cocoa, WPF, or whatever. The observation that web packaged apps are typically slower and typically have worse UIs is probably not being contested here. Likewise, the advantages of Electron for cutting costs and shipping apps faster is probably not being contested. I think the only real question people have is, “Do you care?” I used the desktop version of Discord for a few years. It seems like—well, a real piece of shit, to be honest. So I use the web client now. Performance is only really a problem when you scroll around, deep in the history of a channel. My point of reference is apps like Adium.