> Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry?
Yes. What other rendering engine are you going to use? If your answer is anything but a web browser rendering engine, then consider that any serious UI toolkit in 2022 is certainly going to need a WebView UI component: so if you want the WebView UI component to be consistent across platforms (you want this), then you will have to bundle a web rendering engine anyway. In that case, why not just use the web rendering engine as your main rendering engine?
There’s nothing wrong with Electron as a concept. The issue is with either: blink being under optimized for this use case, or bad Electron apps.
Yes. What other rendering engine are you going to use? If your answer is anything but a web browser rendering engine, then consider that any serious UI toolkit in 2022 is certainly going to need a WebView UI component: so if you want the WebView UI component to be consistent across platforms (you want this), then you will have to bundle a web rendering engine anyway. In that case, why not just use the web rendering engine as your main rendering engine?
There’s nothing wrong with Electron as a concept. The issue is with either: blink being under optimized for this use case, or bad Electron apps.