I thought that exact thought a while back, so I decided to fill in one of the gaps in my application arsenal by building a native application that does nothing

I thought that exact thought a while back, so I decided to fill in one of the gaps in my application arsenal by building a native application that does nothing but display a grid of images quickly. It's a gallery app. After trying to make the most basic version of this app I can imagine, here's my takeaway on desktop application development: it sucks. Badly. Displaying a grid of images in a webapp is a few lines of javascript and a few lines of html. In most native application development systems I've seen, it's 20 lines of code just to open the window. To be fair, the web makes easy things easy and hard things impossible, whereas native desktop applications make easy things hard and hard things possible. But, I definitely see now why most developers prefer to build things in electron.