[loarabia]

I do agree on avoiding electron if possible as users do notice. I've seen folks who perhaps don't know the intricate details of software run into performance issues.

A public example: Dwyrin is a YouTube streamer playing Go/Baduk. After most streams he reviews the game and likes an app called Sabaki. About 8:10 minutes in, he remarks on the performance of the app (https://youtu.be/vrX4qlbpQfU?t=492). Sabaki is an electron based app.

I do however disagree with removing right click / highlighting. That makes copy paste difficult or impossible for the typical user. I spent years working on Silverlight and UWP and one of the things I recall the team looking back on particularly with Silverlight and regretting was that TextBlocks by default didn't have highlightable text. Its too useful for users sharing error messages with you as the developer or data with each other to get their jobs done.

[Tarks]

When I see apps going Electron to me they're saying "I care more about making this easily available and focusing on features other than performance" - which is absolutely fine it's a value statement.

Electron likely helped Sabaki focus on other features with good enough performance, while being the best looking and most skinnable Go app by a country mile (I created a How to train your Dragon skin to temp my partner into learning Go :D)

Only so many hours to dedicate to a project, you have to pick what you value most. This comme T is partially because I'd hate for the people involved with Sabaki to not hear that at least some of their users "get it" and love it.