Electron is chic because it looks nice and it feels nice ...everywhere. Until it does not and then the costs of doing it in smh else are too high

Looks nice: agreed.

Feels nice? Try running an Electron app (for example atom or VS code) on a 4gb ram celeron (like the one I have at my 9-5 work) and I can guarantee that you won't like the feeling :/

A lot of people care about looks and ergonomics before performance. I am not one of them but seriously people like shiny things. Even tech users like good UI before having to use your traditional shitty gui but performant app.

Not this tech user and not tech team either. I value my time and a shiny slow UI and often even a good slow UI does not help me with that. My go to tooling to 'get shit done' with my team looks awful and is extremely condensed (one of the forms is one of our 45 page apps condensed into one page) but it is far faster to work with than anything like the shiny things we ship. Both are fast but the none shiny versions are much faster (in everything) because they use less resources, no images etc, so that saves time too when you are working and quickly need to check some flow. Also on slow computers.

I agree a lot of people care about looks and ergonomics, but none tech people complain about Electron apps: a lot of people know the standard things on Windows and these apps behave and look different. For young people this might not matter, but 40+ none technical friends ask me for help a lot with these none standard things where there is no normal menu or preferences is in a different place etc. I tell them to think of it like a webpage and not a Windows app. But it is a Windows app...

It is probably too late to turn things around, but I hope people keep trying. I will anyway. And these kind of articles (and Rebol) give me some hope.

They will start caring eventually. Even ordinary people got turned off of bloated-feeling Java apps on the desktop.

The sad news is, we're the last 2 people on the planet to know what Delphi was.

You mean, the last 2 people in this echo chamber (outside of which there are orders of magnitude more people getting software stuff done) - there, fixed that for you.

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