For what it's worth I used VSCode as a ARM build on a Chromebook with crouton. It was fine. I think it cost me $150 used.

> cancer that needs to be nipped in the bud.

Come on with the hyperbole. Electron is effectively (nipped) as it is most usually just the shortest path to giving apps a persistent offline option outside of the browser sandbox. I don't know of _any_ electron app that isn't also a dedicated web app. VSCode is embedded as an editor in a few online code sandboxes.

Electron apps will almost certainly be replaced with PWA akin to the MS strategy. Shared run time, distributed via a 'store' of some kind, etc. It's an arc that we are in the middle of.

I get it, the world needs a better solution. However there isn't one. There isn't even a #2 best option. Electron's success is just the industry's continued failure.

You'd think Google would be close with Flutter, but Flutter doesn't run in the browser. So, fail.

Are there any options you'd suggest using _over_ Electron?

Every couple months an electron thread pops up and gets the same bashing.

The world very much needs electron and that's why it exists. jQuery was the same way forever. People just complained _constantly_ that we should be advancing the spec and using built in calls. That jQuery was some sort of bloated misstep. Well, we're still waiting for web components to be standardized more than 15 years later.

So as I understand it, people that don't like electron would rather us use _nothing_. Thus providing _no_ stepping stone to what should rightfully come next.

I see the same thing with electric cars. They aren't perfect _now_ so why invest in them at all? Why even explore an avenue that could lead to other innovations if it isn't _perfect_ out of the gate? 91% of the world population don't even own cars!