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I was researching a GUI framework for creating a desktop tool (that is a not very memory or CPU intensive). I felt that Electron was good enough. For the GUI framework it seemed like I can make do with Photonkit[1] and ReactJs.

[1] http://photonkit.com/

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Is your remark about the memory requirements about what the tool's functionality itself would consume, or the complete application (including the Electron runtime)? I was under the impression that each Electron application would require as much memory as an instance of the Chrome browser.

Yes. I was not building an application like Tableau or IntelliJ. I also was not building anything that had high performance requirements (which electron will definitely fail at) it was a CRUD app - the desktop version of a website with sync functionality.

The learning curve and full fledgedness of Qt was not needed for me.

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