There really is no competition and any claim to the contrary would need to offer more than a cross platform desktop app.
In fact none can be applied except ease of use and it's about the same, until the app grows and one realizes that the typical JS architecture is as easy to structure as a pile of mush.
Electron supporters are really taking the piss in this thread. Slapping together a bunch of statements which can be easily disproved doesn't qualify as an argument.
You have your unshakable opinions and I’ll leave you alone with them.
* clojurescript
* f# via fable
* c# via different means(even an MSIL compiler)
* Golang
* etc
I mean, clojurescript and F# are bomber if you want functional. Typescript may give the best interop with existing packages, but I've read good things about F#'s .d.ts file support for creating type providers. In any case, if the lang you pick creates a bit of extra work that's probably small beans compared to the work required to get all of what parent described with completely separate languages and platforms.
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Naturally there are limits to how well you can retrofit something into a language compared to having that feature there from the start...
Nowadays you don't even have to use JS/TS, there are many languages that target JS and have decent bindings to its ecosystem, such as Scala, Purescript, Clojure. This doesn't seem to be the case with Qt which lacks decent bindings to languages other than Python.
You might wanna read that back to yourself. Now replace it with any language you hate, and then tell me how that statement makes any form of argument at all (it doesn't...).
It's like saying "I loathe Linux!!" and knowing nothing about it; sure, but in this industry, you're going to have a tough time :)