@Moon @mischievoustomato @cell @theorytoe Electron apps are the present equivalent of a similar scourge that plagued the PCs of the mid-00s in certain professional and business environments, which was running several Java applications with Swing UIs that all shipped their own Java runtime.

The fallout was exactly the same, but even worse than today because CPUs were slower, RAM was more expensive and also slower, and mass storage was a LOT slower:

- Often sluggish UI experience compared to native toolkits
- Huge cache directories littered all over the user's harddisk, wasting space
- Security issues of the runtime only getting patched if/when the app itself was updated and bothered with updating the runtime as well
- Sometimes haphazard integration with the OS / desktop