Your own electron app is a 500MB application. The memory use balloons to 512MB after opening a single document.

I’ve yet to use one that isn’t noticeably feature/integration limited in a way that a native Mac app wouldn’t be. That reduces my productivity.

...not true. We actually love electron as a platform. But there is no way at all it would be suitable for this product.

So we didn’t use it here.

Often when someone says “we now have a cross platform product” people think “I wonder if they used Electron?”

In this case, a discerning reader might’ve realised that Electron would be inappropriate, so I headed them off at the pass by saying that we don’t use it.

This is an app that should run all the time and have as little impact as possible. It’s most common activity is very dependent on native support (for screen capture).

When viewing/playback we’re in territory that wouldn’t be terrible for electron, but we have the skills to implement it natively (by we I mean my partner Jon) so that’s what we do.

Electron apps are slow