[GrumpyCoder]

I know I'm being completely naive but can all electron apps share one runtime (sorta like one browser with multiple tabs)?

[jhasse]

Yes, they would simply link stuff dynamically (.so, .dll, .dylib files).

But everyone is using a slightly different version of Electron and macOS and Windows don't have a good enough package manager, so everyone is static linking everything.

[alexforencich]

No, that would just bring back DLL hell.