[isaiahg]

I've made desktop apps with electron and you can definitely make a decent one but it isn't going to be as fast. If it's a simple program it's not bad but if you're going to do any complicated computation you'll wish you had gone native. On the other hand, if it's not a complicated app, some people are going to wonder why this simple app is taking so many resources.

How about a compromise. Instead of c++ why not learn Python instead and use pyside QT. This was actually what I ended up doing coming from webdev. You don't get the steep learning curve and can get a lot of the benefits from native apps. It won't be as fast as C++ but you won't have the overhead of electron. And besides most apps probably aren't going to need to brute performance of C++.