[imtringued]

Usually the alternative to many electron apps is the web version which lacks 5% of the features but is 10 times more efficient.

[yoz-y]

Native and Electron apps have two advantages over web though. Fist one is, that they do have access to the file system. This makes a whole range of applications (like Git Kraken) possible. The other is that an application has an icon in the taskbar/dock. When somebody pings me on slack I know where to go to read it. When somebody calls me in hangouts, I have to go fishing for the tab or window with the site open.

[nkkollaw]

Not true.

One example of a service that probably _could_ have a web version is Spotify, but they only offer their service via their Electron app.

Apps I care about are VSCode, Atom, Spotify, Slack.

[Can_Not]

Spotify actually does have a web player.