[skoczymroczny]

I have to partially disagree. With stuff like webapps or Electron, we still have the same GUI on all platforms rather than using the native widgets. Also JavaFX is drawing it's widgets themselves, and I wouldn't call JavaFX 'old days'.

[jventura]

I've been professionally developing full stack web products for some years now, and as much as I like the web, it is indeed too cumbersome to implement complex things on it. For instance, my previous company just laid off some 4/5 developers mainly because the web app they were (re)building sucks big time..

Electron is seen as a great thing because it allows web developers to finally come back to desktop. But what about we guys that learned how to build products directly for the desktop? We do not need Electron. We may need a web view to render something on it, but not Electron specifically.

Finally, as someone trying to build something to sell, I do not want the same GUI on all platforms, I just want something that looks native in each platform (not giant web buttons, for instance) and that allows me to share many components of a codebase.