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> If you code lazily with Electron [...] It's pretty simple really.

It has nothing to do with 'laziness'. You ignored the entire 'The Business Case' section of the article.

I think OP was implying that you could code in a non-lazy way while using electron. For example, a lazily coded app would use too many frameworks (e.g. jQuery + jQuery UI + angular 1, 3 http clients, 3 underscore forks) and bad coding practices (many memory leaks and unnecessary duplication, no optimization attempts, team never learned the language, shipping dev builds with extra debug tools to production). Maybe electron isn't as bad as the bad apples draw it down to be. Personally, I'm still interested in something like react native for desktop.

   react native for desktop

We're all waiting for that silver bullet

There is this: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos

And also this (cross-plat React Native for Windows/iOS/Android): https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp

> Personally, I'm still interested in something like react native for desktop.

Use JavaFX with JS running on the JVM?

Far smaller runtime, far better performance.

OP was not implying that (see the rest of their comment).

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