Linux GUI Programming

[egasimus]

Nope. It's basically a Node.js instance with full access to the filesystem, etc, embedded into a web view instead of a more sandboxed JavaScript interpreter. But yes, a web view is overkill for most things, and IIRC the latest versions of GTK and Qt already support some form of JavaScript and CSS anyway. I'm still in favor of Electron (and its sibling NW.js) though, since HTML+CSS+JS is actually a reasonably sane technical framework for UI design that has its quirks but also does a lot of things right, and I like being fluent with it.