Electron and other frameworks

Last week Discord announced they were dropping Electron (the Chromium-based framework) in favour of a native Rust rewrite. They claim it drops memory usage to 290 MB.

This would be impressive if it pans out. On my machine, at the moment, I see 842.4 MB being used by Discord.

What's your opinion of Electron? It's been the foundation of many apps I use daily (Slack, VS Code, Discord). Is it worth the price paid in memory (which isn't cheap!)? Is Discord going to lead a trend? If starting a new project, what framework would you use?

Everyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Proton Meet link will be posted at 12 pm Alberta Time aka Central Standard Time (ABT/CST/UTC-6).