&gt; given how well most poeple think they recognize &quot;native&quot; widgets in mobile<p>Every time I&#x27;ve opened a Cordova app I haven&#x27;t known it was done in Cordova, but immediately thought the app was acting very oddly. Checked the source and yeah, there it is. Cordova.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that every Cordova app is bad, I&#x27;m sure there some that work well, and if I had a need for <i></i>any<i></i> of the example apps in their showcase[0] I would have already tested some. HTML5 performance isn&#x27;t so much the issue as the implementation of the wrapper. Electron stands as a testimonial to the capability of web technologies as an application platform, it&#x27;s the history of Cordova applications, even in the last month I have tested an up to date Cordova app, and it just doesn&#x27;t hold up to the hype. And I&#x27;m someone who really wants cross-platform web-based development on mobiles to be great.