> Speed I'll give you that, but performance is not the most important factor for most users of most applications.

> Native UI Coming from someone who has done web development and iOS development, who tried native development for osx then switched to electron with react and redux, I have found it faster and easier to completely recreate the look and feel of the native osx views while adding custom functionality than to add custom functionality to natively. Appkit sucks and many of the improvements they've made over the years are only available in recent osx versions.

The development experience is much better using VSCode than Xcode too. That's insane. A 2-3 year old web based text editor should not be a better, faster, and more stable development environment than the 8th version of the of the IDE from the most valuable company on the planet.

IMO those are specific choices for specific types of applications, when most people just need a simple front end for their app.

What about the energy performance hit that electron apps introduce?

I haven't noticed it, and use Atom (Electron based) on a Laptop often. It's a MacBookPro, so already one of the better in terms of battery consumption, but I use it disconnected from Power for upwards of 5-6 hours at a time with no issues.