I can definitely see a niche in which Electron serves well.<p>However, it seems weird that when talking about mobile apps, the PhoneGap&#x2F;Cardova &quot;web wrapper&quot; concept is derided as awful compared to native code or maybe cross-plat frameworks.  From my anecdotal experience, those same people tend to think that Electron or NW.js are the greatest thing since sliced bread.<p>Electron is PhoneGap for the desktop.  That&#x27;s not necessarily a bad thing or a good thing, it&#x27;s just a thing that makes sense in certain use cases and not others.  The fact that web wrappers have different levels of &quot;street cred&quot; across mobile&#x2F;desktop contexts feels more subjective than objective.<p>I suspect it&#x27;s simply a matter of the younger crowd having more exposure to native mobile development, and little or no experience with native desktop development... so this discrepancy reflects those different comfort levels.