Comparing the developer experience between them makes it hard to argue that HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS are the right tool for building GUI apps. The awkwardness of the web &#x27;platform&#x27; is just huge, in comparison, even ignoring the performance issues. Atom and VSCode, for instance, have a long way to go to catch up with the real Visual Studio or IntelliJ.<p>The real reason you&#x27;re seeing apps based on Electron these days is that it&#x27;s easy to hire HTML&#x2F;CSS developers. That doesn&#x27;t mean these are good platforms though. I remember when the bulk of apps were being written in Visual Basic because it was easy to hire VB devs (lots of people learned VBA via MS Office).