One nice thing about targeting a web engine is that your application could potentially run in browsers too. Lots of Electron applications do this.

Also you get to take advantage of the massive amount of effort that goes into web engines for accessibility, cross-platform consistency, and performance.

Electron is a memory hog, but actually very powerful and productive. There’s a reason why VSCode, Discord, and many others use it.

But yeah, I wouldn’t say no to a native Rust desktop stack similar to Qt. I know there are options at various levels of sophistication that I’m curious about but haven’t explored in depth.