Electron

Electron is a development framework to create apps based on a web browser and web technologies.

• Electron: The bad parts – Philipp Langhans @ hackernoon.com
• In defense of Electron – Mo Bitar @ dev.to

Since Electron based apps run a full web browser in the background, the resource usage is often not comparable to similar apps written in other frameworks.

• Electron is Flash for the desktop

Even though the underlying browser framework gets patched quickly when security issues arise, many developers of Electron-based apps don't rebase their applications on the newer Electron version.

• Riot.im – chat client for the [matrix] network
• Balena Etcher – burn ISOs to USB sticks
• vscodium – IDE (although their Electron is heavily patched and pretty fast)

• awesome-electron – somehow, some people think Electron wasn't a mistake.