[dspillett]

> HN has strong opinions against Electron

Beware the bias of the loud minority.

Hear hear.

Though depending on the application(s) in question, if JS and things that traspile to it are attractive to the developer then they could also consider an offline-first/-only web app. Not practical for everything and adds its own family of potential complications, but worth considering.

> but also as someone who knows that writing comments on HN is 100x easier than actually shipping

As someone who has a huge pile of projects just waiting to be started (and one or two languishing in a PoC state) I think your 100x factor is more than a little too small!