[aikinai]

Electron is popular with developers, not users.

[thiht]

Any data backing that up? Don't forget HN users are a bubble. I'm actually pretty sure standard users don't even notice a difference between Electron and native apps. I for one sometimes prefer Electron apps over badly designed and ugly native apps.

[moksly]

Then why are Discord and Visual Studio Code both so popular and well liked by their users?

[dgellow]

Because they provide features their users care about. Not because of their choice of framework.

[dragonwriter]

Proving that features are important, native controls...not so much.