@igel @matrix this is also not only about being lightweight but just being fucking lazy and using a web browser engine (that was bloated for the same reasons) for desktop applications
a fucking web browsers has multiple layers of abstraction that the user never sees and it's insane that they ever run this well in the first place
people started the browser hype long time ago and that created lots of jobs for web devs but just because a tool can be applied in some places, it doesn't mean it can be used everywhere
the other reason why electron started being a thing is because developers wanted to be "special" and started making their own UIs that ended up in the horrible mess we know from the windows desktop experience
TL;DR just because you know how to use a tool, it doesn't mean you can apply it for every problem you have. you don't just hammer a broken water pipe