It's not quite that simple though, because plenty of high profile apps have gone through large rewrites from native to Electron. Skype is probably the biggest offender here, taking an app that was actually quite good and turning it into a steaming pile of crap.
Alternatively, we've got closed systems like Slack that are slowly and pervasively getting rid of open systems like IRC.
I'm really not sure that there's an engineering time advantage in taking a reasonably solid existing piece of software and rewriting it in Electron. Is the technical debt really that large?
Really, I think the problems we have are political, and not technical. I include things like NIH syndrome in that group.
Alternatively, we've got closed systems like Slack that are slowly and pervasively getting rid of open systems like IRC.
I'm really not sure that there's an engineering time advantage in taking a reasonably solid existing piece of software and rewriting it in Electron. Is the technical debt really that large?
Really, I think the problems we have are political, and not technical. I include things like NIH syndrome in that group.