The original article isn't substantive. I mean, c'mon, the entirety of the argument against Electron apps is
> They eat up all the memory you have and still ask for more. They constantly crash and has no value over a native desktop application what so ever - well, perhaps with the only exception that now a 2 year old baby can make something shiny that you can click on with your mouse.
I'm kind of a curmudgeon about Electron apps, and I'm still reading that and going, "I can't think of a single time I've had an Electron app crash on me, what kind of genius two-year-olds are out there developing in React Native, and what kind of juvenile complaint is 'make something shiny that you can click on with your mouse' (as opposed to native desktop apps, which as we all know are matte black and only take keyboard input). Also, for Strunk & White's sake, 'whatsoever' is one word, and 'they' goes with the verb 'have', not 'has.'"
And the whole article is like this. He goes on to complain about PHP templating systems because PHP itself is a templating language, and sure, yes, argument to be made there! Just…not this argument. Most PHP templating systems compile their templates to pure PHP, so if anything is making "the application load four times as slow" it is not that. Then he goes on to tell us "all web servers has a build in router" -- there are either two or three syntax errors in that seven-word sentence, depending on whether you count "build in" for "built-in" as one or two -- and rails against how web frameworks are eschewing web servers' built-in routers (by which we mean…URL requests?) and instead insisting on implementing the revolutionary new (checks notes) front controller pattern. Yes, you're right, web development would be so much easier without that, wouldn't it? Also, while we're here, let's talk about line numbers. Why aren't we still using line numbers? Named functions are for wussies. In my day, we used GOTO both ways uphill in the snow and we liked it!
Wait, sorry. Where was I?
Anyway, it's actually pretty hard to make "substantive counter-arguments". The article is badly argued and badly written. I would not normally be quite so much of a jerk about the numerous syntax errors, except that this ends with a suggestion that people, you know, pay for this writing. I don't expect perfection (God knows I make tpyos all the time), but the closing paragraph starts with a sentence that literally has no verb. If your entire thesis is "IT people need to do better," well: engineer, heal thyself.