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This is a false dichotomy. There are plenty of cross-platform toolkits that are far leaner than electron.

Can you please give me a list of examples I can evaluate myslef and decide if it's worth spending my time learning instead of going the Electron route?

Not the previous poster, but here is a list of cross-platform GUI libraries / toolkits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_G...

Sciter is missing from that list for some reason.

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