[swsieber]

You're probably not alone.

Here's the tired counter-argument: I'd rather have an app with a slightly awkward ui for my os, than no app at all. The advantage of these cross platform toolkits (and our bane), is that it makes it significantly easier to make build for other platforms.

[alsetmusic]

> Here's the tired counter-argument: I'd rather have an app with a slightly awkward ui for my os, than no app at all.

I agree. However, I also think that this has an undesirable effect of discouraging a platform-specific app from being created, especially in niche markets.

Edit: clarity

[tracker1]

I think it's great that so many apps are available for mac or linux that wouldn't otherwise be available. Electron provides a baseline that simply is much more difficult with platform specific code, or other cross platform applications. It's not all in the box, and far from perfect. But the fact is, I get to use VS Code, Teams, Spotify (I know not electron specifically, but similar enough) and a handful of other apps everywhere I run.

For the most part I stick to cross platform apps, if that means a "lesser" electron based app, so be it. And most of them look far better than other cross platform and even native options a lot of the time.