This sounds like (for now) the first step towards something like shared runtime for electron apps, would greatly solve the perf issues associated with electron.
I built https://github.com/SiDevesh/Quark-Carlo a while ago to convert web apps to native apps using the installed chrome browser as a runtime, using the carlo project by google, google killed it pretty soon though.
This way apps would only have to package their own node runtime (since a lot of electron apps use native modules or modified version of nodejs) and use chromium from the system.
The above project by me does the same thing and the size and memory requirement is greatly reduced, (apps come at average of 40mb as compared to 120mb for electron apps).
