> other companies like Discord have managed to build much better apps on top of it Not to mention Microsoft themselves! VS Code is probably the shining example

> other companies like Discord have managed to build much better apps on top of it Not to mention Microsoft themselves! VS Code is probably the shining example of what performance you can get out of Electron - with the caveat that it did take more engineering effort than I'd expect out of a chat app, and it's still more resource hungry than equivalent native editors/IDEs