https://dev.to/bitario/in-defense-of-electron
I know it's already a week old but the board is slow so who cares
In Defense of Electron
Electron, a popular framework that allows developers to write code once and deploy on multiple platforms like Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been under a state of steady attack over the past year.
Those against it are rallying to hinder the speeds at which Electron is gaining adoption by new and established startups alike. Two of the most popular tools used by developers today are proudly built with Electron: Slack and Atom.
Opponents of Electron say that “it’s too memory intensive.” Or, “It hogs the CPU.” Or even better yet, “It runs the entirety of the Google Chrome engine in every window.”
Even more, anti-Electron posts are usually filled with charts and tables, along with screenshots of Activity Monitor with memory and CPU usage, outlining the evilness of the framework and why it must be stopped at all costs.
Focusing heavily on how it makes a robot computer feel, these posts ultimately neglect what will be the deciding factor in Electron’s success or failure: how it feels for most people to run Electron apps day-to-day.