CHANGED: We have switched to Electron from NW.js -- you had that backwords

Still, can anyone offer some insight as to why?

Electron is more active than NW.js looking at their github repos, it has had 25 releases since the last NW.js release for example. Visual Studio Code choosing electron was a big external validation too in my opinion. (no idea if that was a factor though)

Interesting. I am developing a desktop app using nwjs because a) many popular apps were made using nwjs and b) I like their documentation.

It is fascinating because both of them are quite similar in nature and picking one instead of the other doesn't mean you're missing out on a major feature.

I know I had some issues building LT on Debian 7 (long time ago now) -- and the whole bundle node+nw.js appeared to be a bit fragile. Hopefully Atom Shell is a more stable/sane/better tested platform -- it appears that's what the reasoning was if I'm reading what appears to be the relevant issue correctly:

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/1728

I think it was because they ran into problems with NW (esp. freezes on OSX), but I'm not entirely sure if this was the main reason for switching to Atom/Electron.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/light-table-discussion/fgnl0...