It’s not even horribly slow. It works fine. It’s just a chat program. It’s the right trade off for the job.

Doing more work for no reason is stupid even if you the have money of a small nation.

The inevitable differences between platforms you get with all native everything isn’t a good user experience, either. Now you need to duplicate your documentation and support pages and have support staff available to address every platform. And what’s the payoff? Saving 80MB of RAM? Gaining milliseconds of latency that Joe Business will never notice as he’s hunt and pecking his way through the interface?

I thought we were done with Electron hate articles. It’s so 2018 to complain about it. It’s like talking about millennials and their skinny jeans. Yawn.