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Performance is only part of it. Using a single language for the whole stack is very valuable to a lot of people. I think that's why Node gained popularity because many developers were using JS for the frontend so why not use the same language for the backend as well?

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That's what appealed to me. Cross-platform desktop client? Electron/TypeScript. Front-end of a website? TypeScript. Back-end service? Node/TypeScript.

Yes, exactly. Xamarin is already a good cross-platform solution for "apps" and so Blazor is hopefully the missing piece for the web. The JS-based cross-platform mobile solutions are just not in the same league as Xamarin, IMO.

Can you show benchmarcks of an electron app vs xamarin for a same UX?

I don't have any, no. Benchmarks are going to be relative to what you want to compare though so you will likely have to take them yourself, especially if you are comparing something subjective like UX.

I know Paul Betts lurks around here sometimes (well maybe he used to, it looks like xpaulbettsx no longer exists), I would take his opinion on the two frameworks over anything I come up with.

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