&quot;Electron has lowered the barrier to developing desktop applications&quot;. Nope, I don&#x27;t think so. Perhaps for web developers.<p>For non-web developers, there are already well-suited technologies to develop desktop applications: Swing, Qt, Cocoa, GTK, WPF&#x2F;WinRT, and so on. Maybe theses technologies seem less sexy but there are here from the beginning to do that kind of job.<p>Please, use the right tool for the right job.