[rkangel]

The confusion factor here is that 'cross-platform' has become fairly synonymous with 'Electron' (if desktop is one of your targets). It is possible to build cross-platform stuff that is performant. In the past I used wxWidgets for the classic Enterprise app that was cross-platform between Windows and Linux. The UI wasn't the prettiest thing in the world (you regularly end up with dated looking widgets) but it was snappy, and the UX was good.

It's continuously astonishing to me that there isn't another workable UI platform that doesn't require bringing a whole browser. Or is the HTML/CSS/JS UI the killer feature because you can share things with the browser implementation (or share skills with a browser frontend team)?