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I don't know if you got my point. Starting a multi gigabyte machinery for the web just for a chatting app is pure insanity sorry. It will be slow to start, slow to react and a battery hog vs a comparable quality QT app. The worse part is usually people use the web stack for desktop app because they don't want to bother giving a good experience to the people on their own native platform.

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True, I wrote my own chat app in Qt, and it is substantially faster and more efficient (lower battery usage) than anything made with web technologies.[1]

[1] https://www.get-vox.com/

I do wish more things were written in Qt, but Qt Widgets is very unpleasant to work in for a modern dynamic app.

QtQuick/QML/JS is very pleasant and I do wish more people would use it, but from I've seen it's 25-50% the resource use of electron, not some multi-order-of-maginute improvement, do I understand why many people still prefer electron for portability in this case.

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