[guappa]

> The web is the best cross-platform environment we have as evidenced by the fact that developers flock to stuff like Electron at all

I suspect that web developers who only know web development flock to electron because they think it's easier than learning a new technology.

In my professional experience, it is perhaps easier for a web developer who only knows JS to get a prototype working, but when you want a nice application you end up having to re-implement a number of things that any regular widget toolkit would already offer. So on the long term I don't think it's cost efficient at all, but at that point you've already spent resources on your electron GUI so you keep going forever.