There are many reasons why one would not want to use Electron to write an application.
- An Electron application is necessarily slower and larger than a native application with the same functionality
- An Electron application is yet another browser instance on a user's machine, with all the vulnerabilities of that version of Chrome
Those two alone are enough reasons for a lot of (but still far too few) developers.
Software is getting slower much more rapidly than hardware is getting faster, and one of the reasons for that is Electron and how seductive it is to application developers.
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There are many reasons why one would not want to use Electron to write an application.
- An Electron application is necessarily slower and larger than a native application with the same functionality
- An Electron application is yet another browser instance on a user's machine, with all the vulnerabilities of that version of Chrome
Those two alone are enough reasons for a lot of (but still far too few) developers.
Software is getting slower much more rapidly than hardware is getting faster, and one of the reasons for that is Electron and how seductive it is to application developers.