[Hydraulix989]

Suppose your JS Chrome App is getting the plug yanked on it, what are your alternatives?

1.) Port it to Electron and keep nearly the same code base

2.) Rewrite the whole thing as a native app in such a language as C++ without the use of Electron

You can't possibly tell me that most developers won't choose #1 instead of #2 in a heartbeat (the switching costs are orders of magnitude more for #2, for one thing). Which is not a Good Thing.

And it's also very obvious that #2 isn't nearly as secure as #1, which runs in a sandbox and so does not have direct unchecked access to users' files like #2 does.

[lukechilds]

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, an Electron app also has direct unchecked access to users' files by using the Node.js 'fs' core module.

[hueving]

Which option works on a chromebook?

[snakeanus]

You can as a user to just use another application.