Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s amazing to me how much more usable those UIs are. Not to mention how much more performant they’d be than modern Electron garbage. But forget about Mac OS 9, we don’t even have native OS X or Windows interfaces anymore. Doesn’t help that Apple dropped the ball on following their own UI guidelines.
This intense hatred for Electron has always baffled me. I thought the community in general was in favour of allowing people to create whatever they wanted, however they wanted. More people making software is good! And the community grows because of it, and everything is better. But every time an electron app gets promoted somewhere (HN/Reddit/Twitter/wherever) there is always _someone_ yelling at the developer becaus…
That means a potential reward for the patient/smart/etc developer who knows native code, which means a better class of developer, which in turn means better software.
And it means more native apps for the platforms, which means a better class of app.
In short, everything is not better when Electron is everywhere. It actively damages the ecosystems of the platforms that host it.