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I admire your words here.

I am on the other side, building electron apps, I appreciate the flexibility and ease because I would rather iterate on ideas then learn three different OS-hooks.

I do agree that memory usage is too high on these types of apps and we as developers can be lax about performance.

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When why not just use gtk or qt and call it a day? Electron is unnecessary.

Mainly due to them being both more tightly integrated to C++/Python than JS/TS for building desktop apps.

Yeah, but, honest question, why would you want to use JS if you didn't have to? It's like, the worst language possible.

When all you have is a hammer...

If you use typescript, the tooling is great and the parent also mention it so I assume they are using it.

Code reusability between browser/desktop/mobile is one. Easier to find developers, faster development speed due to ecosystem, previous experience/familiarity etc. I guess.

Maybe it is just your subjective opinion? I am pretty sure that there are people enjoy writing JS/TS over C++/Python.

If I were no experience for GUI development, I'd prefer to learn Web tech than Desktop tech like Qt because it look like more popular and versatile skill.

I would pick writing JS over C++ any day. Of course, that's just my opinion. I am sure yours differs.

JavaScript is actually not too bad. It lacks static types, but Typescript gives you one of the better type systems. But I'd take JavaScript over PHP or Bash any day of the week and twice on Fridays.

So quantity > quality?

I agree too, and your average user is not going to care about the fact you've used Electron, or even know. It's a big win for development.

I disagree. I mean they may literally not know that your app uses Electron, but they'll certainly have the feeling of, "Oh, that janky app that doesn't quite work correctly and makes my system slow."

I think that might be true on Windows or Linux, but not on the Mac. It seems like Mac developers care more about making their application feel good to use.

Your average user has just come expect technology to suck nowadays. Go look around and many people are jaded by how poor things actually function.

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