That's why DeskGap uses EdgeHTML on Windows. With toolchains such as webpack and babel, building an app that runs on WebKit and EdgeHTML (which is going to be replaced by Chromium[0]) can't be that hard.
> Nobody wants to wait for a vendor to update their implementation when Chrome has the feature available almost immediately.
DeskGap doesn't mean to be a complete replacement for Electron. But after a glance of Electron Apps[1], I suppose many simple apps do not require start-of-art features.
[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...