[graysonk]

They didn't say whether electron was good or bad. Just that this app is one.

[Cyberdog]

I didn't say it in my above post, no, but I'll say it in this one: Electron is bad.

Specifically, it allows lazy dev teams to deploy lazy "apps."

[namelost]

You don't know how good you have it. Try using Inkscape on a Mac.

Before Electron, the quality of the average cross-platform app was generally atrocious. e.g. lack of support for retina displays, menu bars attached to the window, system fonts totally missing, non-system file pickers, ugly homegrown font rendering...

Electron is amazing and as much as people like to shit on it, it has raised the quality bar considerably.