Electron is the only cross platform gui toolkit…

If you ignore QT, GTK and everything else.

I’m so glad that Microsoft makes an awesome cross platfor— wait, no, but they contribute code to— hmmm … Hey, what does Microsoft do to make apps more portable again?

The real reasons often are:

• They want be able to hire much cheaper webdevs instead of software devs.
• Electron has a lot of built-in data collecting metrics, which they urgently need for creating a real-life KITT.

Also a lot of Windows-only apps are Electron apps, only because the manufacturer wants to go “fuck you”, even putting protections into the code just in case you wanted to run it on Linux.