Electron considered harmful

A 2016 opinion piece arguing that Electron is a poor choice for most desktop applications. The author criticizes Electron for bundling an entire Chromium instance, resulting in bloated memory usage, poor performance, and non-native UIs. Several apps are called out as egregious examples — including a clipboard manager and a terminal emulator — where Electron's overhead is wildly disproportionate to the app's functionality. The author blames developer laziness and unwillingness to learn native GUI frameworks like GTK or Qt. A narrow exception is made for complex apps like VS Code where the bloat is more justifiable.