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People who constantly bellyache about Electron need to compare the all-up cost of one web developer-- of which there is a massive supply in the labor market-- v

People who constantly bellyache about Electron need to compare the all-up cost of one web developer-- of which there is a massive supply in the labor market-- versus one experienced native dev per OS, who are rare and expensive and getting more so all the time as the desktop withers as a development platform. That cost difference absolutely can be the difference between economic viability and unviability, but HN constantly seems to think companies only pick Electron because they're cackling with glee at the thought of wasting their customer's CPU cycles or whatever.

progmetaldev 3y ago
On top of having different teams supporting each OS, because a company developing a project this large isn't going to have a small team where the developers know each OS (not quite full-stack in the web development stack, but just comparable to developers that know every OS they need to build for). There then needs to be communication between different development teams, as well as offering feature-parity across OS's, because your clients need to be able to communicate with each other across OS's since your product is a chat application for business. It's not normally acceptable to have features that are different between OS's when your product is meant for team chat.