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Because designing UIs in a universally-understood, well-tooled markup language like HTML is a lot more developer-efficient than [insert-native-C++-library-here]. Electron allows the use of web tech on the front end with as many native or non-native calls on the backend as you want.

> HTML is a lot more developer-efficient

Web developer-efficient... But when this goes against the end-user efficiency, I'd prefer the latter one.

You’re talking about Sublime Text (among others).

I thought Sublime Text was written in python

I wonder why some people keep saying this.

SublimeText is written in C++ with the Skia library [1]

It exposes an ABI that you can consume via Python scripts.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114

Yes, but then an entire class of “developers” can’t “hack” on it because they have to learn C++, and that’s hard, apparently.