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Actually not. The problem is, good stuff need enduring hard work. There is no justification of wasting resources, draining the battery and providing bad integration into the environment. It is like Flash:

https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

Why companies use Electron? It saves them money! And the users pay for CPU, RAM and suffer from bad usability. But that doesn't show up on your bill from Microsoft, Zoom, Spotify or Slack. And when your stuck with one software migration to better is hard. Steve Jobs killed Flash for just on reason, battery drain ^^



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