I'm currently trying out Electron and I kinda like it! What are your thoughts?

I think it's excellent. We have already created some applications based on Electron.

Especiall as a Linux user, I can absolutely recommend Electron. (Atom, Visual Studio Code, Lighttable and many other great apps).

Electron isn't without its problems, but honestly it's kind of awesome. Do recommend!

Electron ship the full render engine (browser) with it, so a small binary is never possible.
But the cross platform packaging makes it up for me

Electron is literally the only reason Linux has any good apps.

You need a proton too for stability

@chiragiem36 Haha, true that!

@Devman

Electron and Java. I hate on both, but without them Linux would indeed be quite a bit less compatible with the mainstream stuff.

The pro of Electron is that you can offer your product as a web service and as a standalone cross platform app with very little extra work, and that it looks good everywhere with some simple CSS. The con is all the bloat that comes with it.

For fast development its great, for performance its better to use Java or C++/Rust with something like Qt/Gtk and OpenGL.

It's Fantastic if you love developing Desktop application.

@bittersweet Thanks for the well explained response! Guess I have to spend some time on SO and Google to check out all the alternatives and their pros/cons :)