> Building them is also an expensive, slow job that requires a team of developers and designers — particularly if they’re building for multiple platforms, like Windows, macOS, and Linux, at the same time.
That is just blatantly wrong. There's cross platform toolkits like Gtk/Qt/Swing/others that I'd say are still easier to build apps with than electron. There's RAD tools like WinForms and VB that let you drag'n'drop most of the UI if you're happy targeting a single platform.
Electron is still not as good as these options were 20 years ago, the only thing it has going for it are a legion of web developers that are seemingly incapable of learning something different.
> There's RAD tools like WinForms and VB that let you drag'n'drop most of the UI if you're happy targeting a single platform.
Even if you want cross-platform native RAD development, there's options like Xojo / REALbasic [1], at least for Windows / Mac / Linux / RaspberryPi development. I'd bet that most of the Xojo developers are single-person coding shops, and certainly don't have big teams of developers & designers behind them.
Electron is definitely not the only option out there. Anecdata, but most of the people I know personally making money from single-developer cross-platform apps are using Qt, not Electron.
That is just blatantly wrong. There's cross platform toolkits like Gtk/Qt/Swing/others that I'd say are still easier to build apps with than electron. There's RAD tools like WinForms and VB that let you drag'n'drop most of the UI if you're happy targeting a single platform.
Electron is still not as good as these options were 20 years ago, the only thing it has going for it are a legion of web developers that are seemingly incapable of learning something different.