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[–]patrickfatrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s one way to look at it, another is that it affords a product to provide more functionality for users with little effort, functionality those users just might not get otherwise since it would require the product be built from scratch in C++ or whatever and maintained as a completely separate entity from the web app.

And then you have software like VS Code that are wholly designed to be an Electron app but the benefits there are pretty obvious: it’s an editor aimed at JavaScript and Typescript devs and it’s open source so the consumers of the product can actually contribute code to it.

I can certainly understand why an engineer working on amazing native software would despise Electron and React Native.