[SR2Z]

Electron apps will win because they're just web apps - and web apps won so decisively years ago that they will never go anywhere.

[troupo]

No. Electron apps won, not web apps. There's a huge difference.

[antonvs]

Web apps won as well. Electron is just a desktop specialization of that.

[lerp-io]

electron is just a wrapper for the browser tho

[scotty79]

It funny that despite how terrible, convoluted and maladapted web tech is for displaying complex GUIs it still gradually ate lunch of every native component library and they just couldn't innovate to keep up on any front.

Amazon just released OS that uses React Native for all GUI.

[skydhash]

It's easy to design bad software and write bad code. Like the old saying: "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one". Businesses don't have time to write good and nice software, so they wrote bad one.

[SR2Z]

If they have time to write nice software, they generally can only afford to do it once.

Lots of Electron apps are great to use.

[throwaway2037]

Why do you consider Electron maladapted? It has really reduced the friction to write GUIs in an enterprise environment.

[scotty79]

I didn't really mean Electron, but rather unholy amalgam of three languages, each with 20 years of "development", which mostly consisted of doing decrapifying and piling up new (potentially crappy) stuff. Although Electron with UI context and system (backend? background?) context both running js is another can of worms.

[robotresearcher]

> It has really reduced the friction to write GUIs in an enterprise environment.

Thereby adapted to devs' needs, rather than users'.