This attitude seems ignorant of the facts and the unfortunate state of desktop development.<p>Perhaps the cancer is the fact the desktop development community has had decades to settle on a decent cross-platform &#x27;native&#x27; toolkit and completely failed.<p>Perhaps the cancer is &#x27;native&#x27; developers spouting &#x27;native is better&#x27; hyperbole, ignorant of the fact these supposedly better &#x27;native&#x27; toolkits have been web-influenced for a long time.<p>- XAML from C#&#x2F;WPF land being strongly influenced by HTML and CSS.<p>- Android XML being strongly influenced by HTML and CSS.<p>- Qt Quick being strongly influenced by JS and CSS.<p>- GTK+ embracing JS and CSS3.<p>- Everything else being awful procedural C++. Good luck maintaining that.<p>And all have massively inferior developer tools than Chrome devtools and&#x2F;or far worse abstractions for the scene-graph&#x2F;tree of elements than the much-derided yet very powerful DOM.<p>Native desktop is a mess. I&#x27;m glad we&#x27;re seeing Electron expose it for the joke that it is.<p>You can hate web dev tech, but you can&#x27;t claim that native desktop options are better. I won&#x27;t be building apps 3 times or using any of these useless &#x27;cross-platform&#x27; dev kits anytime soon, when I can build the same thing in Electron in a fraction of the time, and leverage the undeniably huge JS and CSS communities.<p>Also very tired of seeing devs use weasel-words like &#x27;bloat&#x27; and neglect to put it into any context, like the fact that on the desktop 1. it ain&#x27;t bloat if filesize is cheap, and 2. said filesize is comparable to the most capable cross-plat options you&#x27;re supposedly arguing for (see Qt Quick).<p>Edit: Softened, expanded.