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I think it's designed to be a more matinable version of Electron, which bundles Chrome with every app that uses it. I have at least 3 or 4 copies of Chromium sitting around on my desktop at home because I use a few Electron apps.

One time, there was some BeagleBone tutorial that recommended using a Windows version of dd that is implemented as an Electron app. It was 200MB. For dd. Not great. At least this uses the Chrome you already have installed.

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right but some of us don’t have and don’t want chrome already installed.

If you've got any Electron apps, you kinda sorta do already have Chrome installed.

That said, I generally agree that requiring Chrome to run an app is not great.

Yeah. "Real" native apps feel a lot better, and of course ship you a lot less code.

It is hard to justify the development effort for that, though, so this is the compromise. An app these days ideally supports Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iPhone, and the web... and that requires a lot of software engineers. Being able to write the bulk of the code once is appealing. But to the end user... they can tell that shortcuts were taken.

Strangely enough I and many other engineers were able to write multiplaform applications in the early 2000 without Electron crap.

Maybe we were special, the lasts of a dying breed.

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