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>WHY IS A DESKTOP CHAT CLIENT AN ELECTRON APP??!??!

Because the current software development approach/practices/tools used close to everywhere are fundamentally flawed driving software development cost to absurdity and making it not viable to not use electron (which allows you to reuse most of the web-client code). At best you get a specialized version for phone apps, but even that is often not worth the money.

And it's not something as simple as "just use approach X" or "tool Y" or "language Z" it a much more complex, subtle and deeply rooted problem across all of the industry, universities and other people driving the software industry.