Electron is a bloated mess, but it remains popular because it creates applications that appear to be independent. But what you end up with is one version of Chromium running on your computer for every fucking application. It’s a ridiculous anti-pattern that any self-respecting developer or architect would never authorize (yes, I know Discord, Spotify, Slack, VSCode and tons of other significant “applications” use it).
An alternative model is simply to use the web browser already running on the system. That’s where “big binaries” (a term I just invented) with embedded static assets come in. You still get all the power of the Electron back end, but you don’t have to embed all of Chromium to get it. Hell, you can throw out the web interface entirely and use Material Design on Qt or GTK or any of the other graphics widget libs out there now for Go. No one will know the difference and that app will be wicked fast.
Speaking of apps, I wonder what the state of Go on mobile is. I really wish Go wasn’t pushing Flutter for that shit. Would have been good to have them get behind Go on native mobile as well. Given the popularity of Rust with front-end people I suppose that is another one to watch. Even though it is a shitty choice for mobile app development, there’s enough popularity there to see people start trying it. But I digress.