I've honestly seen only one properly written Electron app and it's VSCode. Everything else electron sucks. VSCode is not great either but it's much better than say, Atom or Slack.
Sure, but Discord's web app and their native app are basically equivalent. The native app gives a little more system integration (like global hotkeys and direct access to sound hardware) but fundamentally the Discord app is just a webview.
I don't think anyone doubts that a high-quality website wrapped in a webview won't be at least the same quality. The question is whether "web-native" platforms can do more than just be a branded browser.
I was curious as I've never found a standalone visual git client I liked as much as IntelliJ's integrated one. So I downloaded it, found it was 1/4 of a GB and wouldn't look at a local repo without logging in to a web service. Deleted.
I still haven't found anything better than IntelliJ's triple column view for resolving merge conflicts. Is there anything similar in a more lightweight editor?
Some years ago I was evaluating GUI git clients (the landscape has changed since) for rather simple flows and found SmartGitHg simple enough to setup and explain in under an hour and powerful enough not to drop to a shell. No affiliation here.
Another anecdote; your comment is the only one I've ever noticed that appears to be defending Slack. From an outsider looking in, I'm not sure why it is so popular.
It's popular because technical superiority isn't why people use software.
For example, Spotify eats 100% CPU if I leave it open for 24 hours yet I don't think I've met someone in the last year that doesn't have Spotify running on their computer.
I've honestly seen only one properly written Electron app and it's VSCode. Everything else electron sucks. VSCode is not great either but it's much better than say, Atom or Slack.