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What if I am religiously opposed to using Electron for any and all purposes?

Then you are not the target audience of this program. See mps-youtube for a similar program that will not taint your machine with a library you happen to dislike.

On an unrelated note, highly polarized opinions about languages and frameworks are characteristic of people who lack real-world programming experience and are more interested in building an identity than creating computer programs.

The reasons behind Electron

  • It's fun to develop for
  • It uses as much resources as a single browser tab, if used in a sane way
  • It provides a low barrier to entry for contributors
  • It lets us easily build and deploy to all major desktop platforms (various Linux distros, MacOS, Windows)
  • It lets us use React for managing the GUI
  • There is no good alternative that would provide all these benefits (don't get me started on qt)