Completely agree. I simply have no interest in learning any native desktop programming and if I did it would be for my platform only and I wouldn't waste my time writing it for linux and definitely not for windows. I'd release what I had on github and move on. Now I can throw together a small (small by custom code sizes, I know electron is heavy) amount of code and get a cross platform app that doesn't look terrible in relatively short time. I think it's a great first step for a PoC. If it gains enough interest AND (<- big and) you NEED to go native for some reason you can go native later. There are a lot of things you can say bad about electron, yes it's heavy and "bloated" for most uses of it, but if people think empowering others to build things they couldn't or wouldn't before is bad because of how they built it then they are already a lost cause and probably think we should all be writing assembly still.