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by camus2 3233 days ago
> Am I confused or is it not the case that the whole argument for Electron is "write once in Javascript, have a native app for all platforms"? If this is what a flagship Electron app has to do to be performant, is there a real future in Electron?

You are absolutely right and that's the biggest irony of all that, them going down to C++ .

What they should have done is like Sublime Text. Write the GUI in C++ then use Javascript as the scripting layer for your apps (instead of Python).