And it was the wrong tool for the job even then. Atom might be Electron's reason for existing, but that just emphasizes that Electron (in its current form) should not exist at all.

I have no problem with the idea of using Javascript for desktop application development. I do have a problem with relying on a memory-hogging framework, which Javascript was originally design to _avoid_ because back in the 90's it was meant to run in the resource-limited web browser. Too bad that Javascript has strayed so far from its roots.