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Cross platform frameworks have already risen in Electron. Every application I use at work runs on Linux. VS Code, Slack, Zoom, Postman, and others I can't think of are all Electron.

And they all perform fine. The speed difference between JS and native is meaningless in 99% of cases given how fast modern CPUs are. RAM usage is similar. Everyone complains about it, but I've got 32 GB and I don't get above 8GB usage when using these apps.




Nitpick: Zoom isn't Electron-based on any platform AFAIK. On Linux it uses Qt. On Windows it uses its own fork of DuiLib [1]. I don't know about Mac.

[1]: https://github.com/duilib/duilib (apparently only documented in Chinese)


I don't think any of the electron applications you mention have mobile-like UIs which can be easily ported to mobile linux.

Also, flutter memory consumption is often 1/3 or 1/4 of the equivalent electron app, which is significant.


Probably good for there to be competition in the cross-platform space. Maybe Electron is a little overly-bashed, but it's best when it's not the only game in town.




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