> glorified chat apps like Slack

Sure, let's just call the app that many many tech teams use as an app that doesn't matter.

It's not perfect. But it's certainly not insignificant.

It's also not a poster boy for a good app, Electron or not. It looks uglier than plenty of native chat apps and still manages to take up an amazing amount of RAM doing absolutely nothing.

If you mean Slack, they have announced at Google IO that they will migrate to a PWA.

Check the PWA and what is coming to the Web talks.

One reason less to bother with Electron.

So they're moving from one chromium-wrapped desktop web app to another (or, really, they're changing the backing library/framework).

Do desktop PWAs have access to native APIs as a native app would? That's a draw of Electron but not sure why anyone would want it in an application like Slack that works just fine in a browser tab.

I only have one copy of Chrome on my computer.

Yes, PWAs have different levels of access to host APIs.

I'm really not sure what an "app that matters" is. Spotify uses electron, if that matters.

And thankfully was shown at the PWA talk at Google IO, as where they are going next.

AFAIK, Spotify uses its own framework around CEF