Actually several of them are reasonably fast, at least on good CPUs. What I dislike with Electron applications in general is the high overhead on the system (how many GBs of RAM for the few electron apps I need to run in the background?)... I'd like to see someone doing a study to compare how an Electron app would compare to a native one in terms of battery life on an average laptop.
Exactly. I can usually keep things on my desktop fast with Electron apps still but they eat my battery like no ones business.
I was actually also impressed with the mobile app, one of the smoothest React Native-made app I used so far.
v3 will be even smoother. We are migrating to SQLite so startup times will be instant. Performance is a feature.