While using Electon to kickstart project might be a good idea, but it is failing in the long run. There are so many issues, that could be avoided by using some other technologies. Just look at Sublime Text 2 editor, even if they are using Python, program size is relatively small and it performs much better than Atom. Sadly, Sublime is not developed as actively as Atom.
Hipster kids can't code (efficiently, or at all, depending on your definition). In other news, Pope is catholic.