With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced options may no longer handle intense office and gaming tasks.
It’s all about velocity. Electron allows you to ship bullshit to multiple platforms REALLY fast because you only develop for the web, but get Windows, Linux and MacOS as a bonus.
Nobody wants to do C++ anymore, otherwise you could ship most things in Qt and get way better performance and still keep it cross-platform.
I understand that and I don’t have any illusions about things changing (short of major policy break in the EU that emphasizes that you can’t beat the Americans at their own game and you need to develop a novel approach that the Americans can’t compete with).
My counter argument is an application like QBittorrent. It’s an open source app with no budget, it’s cross-platform (including CLI and webUI, albeit MacOS support seems to be subpar due to lack of developers) and it is very efficient.
In the non-open source and/or Windows-only sphere, there is Mp3Tag, Notepad++, FastStone Image Viewer, Media Player Classic BE.
All very snappy applications, with a huge range of features/options (by the standard of consumer software) and they have the ability to handle large throughput.