[netzone]

Really, I agree that there are probably better markup options, but still, there's a reason people choose Electron over the alternatives. For me, personally, that reason is the ease of prototyping - the time it takes for me to have something in front of me that looks good and works easily is so much less using something like Electron.

[klez]

Ok, but from an engineering standpoint I see this as a bit shortsighted.

I mean, shouldn't you care more about shipping a good product (i.e. developing something that doesn't thrash your users' resources) than ease of development?

I get that if it's too hard to develop there's no product to speak of, but still, aren't we going too far off the equilibrium point?

[pjmlp]

They don't know better.

Web stack doesn't have any mature option, besides maybe avril, that matches what something like Blend or QML designer offers.