Why do you think programmers of all people are heavily migrating to Electron based editors like VS Code? Because they like using slow and bloated apps? And I'm not talking only of web programmers, I know plenty of C++ programmers who moved to VS Code.
Oh, I appear to have misread your comment as "why developers move to Electron for their apps".
The reason why developers, myself included, migrate to VSCode is really simple: because it's the best all-around cross-platform IDE right now for many scenarios, and because it has a thriving extension ecosystem to tailor it further. But it is that in spite of being written in Electron, not because of it. If Microsoft announced that it is being rewritten in Qt tomorrow, I'd be ecstatic.
Just to give you an example of what kinds of issues using web tech for desktop-like experience can cause:
(Yes, I'm well aware that they fixed it. The point is that the offending code needed to be written in the first place. A native desktop app using 13% of the CPU to render a blinking cursor would be considered an insane bug to have in the first place.)
Because C++ is not a particularly good language to write large UI apps in.
Also, because QML is still not as good as the rest of Qt. But it's the right approach - a dedicated framework for desktop apps that is not built on things intended for completely different purposes (like HTML), but stealing the good ideas from there, like using a markup language to define the UI tree, and bindings.
Really, what we need is a cross-platform WPF with less fat. HTML is not it - it's cross-platform WPF with more fat, and not optimized for UI.
Because VSCode is a good enough program that fits their needs and the alternative that they were using was Visual Studio? How does that say anything about native frameworks?
