I&#x27;m happy and grateful for any and all open source software, because it enriches everybody, well beyond the scope of its creators. But someone has to say it:<p>Electron is the cancer that is killing desktop computing.<p>It all started years ago with Firefox, whose interface itself was built using web technologies, in a &quot;brilliant stroke.&quot; DOM, CSS, Javascript... maybe not HTML per se, but an XML substitute, and so on. I dare anybody say that Firefox&#x27;s interface has ever felt as fast as IE, Chrome, Opera, or Safari (on Mac.) It never did and still does not.<p>Then someone at GitHub had the bright idea to take this &quot;winning&quot; concept and apply it to a developer&#x27;s text editor, of all things! I still cannot fathom how Atom can have more than 3 users. Every time I&#x27;ve tried it, I&#x27;ve ditched it after 30 seconds. Slooooooooooow!<p>Fast-forward to 2016: now I see new Electron apps popping up every other day. Even something as simple as a text-only WhatsApp IM client, which could be written in a dozen of C++ files, is a bloated monstrosity that eats RAM for breakfast and contains an entire Node.js interpreter and a Webkit layout engine.<p>Cancer, I say!<p>Kill it with fire!