[DonFizachi]

"With Electron, we’re seeing a similar explosion of new desktop software. The lower barrier to entry into creating cross platform desktop software far outweighs the detriment of computer resource usage. A good friend of mine is able to launch and grow a business solo in part because of this low barrier."

Until something better comes along I’d have to agree that Electron is the only way to assure that a developer’s audience are first class citizens regardless of the platform on which the developer’s application is deployed.

In my case, my app ran on an embedded web server and the UI was rendered by Electron. When ever I make changes the app code, I simply run scripts to create installation files for Windows, Mac and Linux (deb). This is done in minutes. What other platform would allow achieve something similar?