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You're right. I tried Deer and it works perfectly, it's smooth and only drops a frame or two on a cold start. It's a well-written program. If it weren't for the UI, I wouldn't even have guessed it's electron. I tried using Pencil too but it didn't work for me because of dynamic link problems (not Pencil's fault - just Linux being very bad at packaging things and me running a slightly nonstandard system).

That said, the ratio of fast electron apps over slow electron apps is much worse than the one of fast native apps over slow native apps. If it's not the tech then it's the people around it. Either way, if I hear "hot new program" and it's electron, I don't think I'm in the wrong to assume it will also be rather slow.

At the end of the day, all I really care about is for the programs I use to work well and reliably. I don't really care how you make them, and as I said I don't have anything intrinsic against electron.