[rpeden]

Microsoft very actively works on React Native for Windows, and last I checked there were decent RN desktop ports for Linux and MacOS. So that's one potential option.

[pjmlp]

Given that they were even measuring the performance against Electron, there is some small hope that eventually VSCode gets rewritten in it.

[Const-me]

I don't think they care about performance a tiny bit.

Here's very simple to implement change which saves dozens of MB of IO bandwidth every startup: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/61343

"We will very likely not do this."

[pjmlp]

Then check BUILD 2019 talk about React Native for Windows. Electron gets a couple of jabs, including a very nice bar comparison chart.