[barnacled]

The article covered another factor:

>The second is the DOM. It is a horrible collection of hacks that make simple things hard and hard things impossible. I have thought many times “if only was I drawing this control/layout directly, I would’ve finished hours ago.”

As a user of electron apps there are clearly limitations on what the UI can do as a result and the style of rendering it is clearly webish.

Another issue I keep on seeing with web based apps, moreso on android, is they seem utterly incapable of dealing with the slightest network non-connectivity. The UI tends to freeze.

I do take your point entirely on the fact that perhaps java's inherent performance limitations might result in a fairly comparable poor experience however.