[kibwen]

> Electron and friends got popular

Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy (I'm in my 20s, jfc), but I don't see how Electron's popularity is considered a given. I know plenty of people who use the given services, but none who use the desktop interfaces. VS Code is the only Electron app that I've ever seen used in the wild. Am I just hanging in the wrong crowds? Which ones should I be looking at, if so?

> It wasn't a "this is not possible today" problem

Hence "feasible" rather than "possible". :P (And conspicuously not "easy" rather than "feasible", either...)

> maybe they could have competed with Electron-style apps

I sound like a broken record by now, but I still don't see what people think Mozilla has to gain by offering a native GUI framework that people have already proven they don't want. And frankly, I think FirefoxOS, while ill-fated, was at least audacious. :P

[__derek__]

> VS Code is the only Electron app that I've ever seen used in the wild. Am I just hanging in the wrong crowds?

Just to note: Atom is the original Electron app. I assume you've seen more people use that than Code.