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> Harder to work with than CSS.

Harder for a web developer for the first two weeks. UI builders are more suitable for making app layouts than CSS.

> Harder to align look of web and desktop.

Thousands of mobile apps do it without much trouble.

Many mobile apps do rely on web views. Think about it, it's already difficult to make Android and iOS apps look similar. You need devs for both platforms. Teams are already squeezed supporting web (4 browsers with their own quirks), mobile web (screen size matters), mobile native (android and iOS) without also having to spread their talent thinner across completely native desktop experiences in Mac, Windows, and Linux. It's too bad Java never did live up to that write once, run anywhere promise...but that's the world we live in.

But we are talking about Slack and they can get this talent. New Skype for macOS is also made with Electron despite Microsoft having a ton of resources and even the old native Skype client for Mac (v7.x and earlier).

Meanwhile, Doist is a smaller company but they made Twist[0] clients native because they care about their customers.

[0]: https://twistapp.com

Java did. It was just butt ugly

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