The alternative to Electron not existing is that you have slower developed, clunkier software, that's buggier and has fewer features.

There is no magic bullet of being like 'just code the exact same thing in C'. There are tradeoffs to every development framework.

Text editors are cool and all but it's literally impossible to find a real IDE that doesn't use AI.

the problem isn't electron, the problem is that A) html is the only truly cross platform UI framework and B) that html (and the web stack in general) has way too many features and is way too complex, because Google's been bolting features onto it for decades.

rust_analyzer takes 16GB of ram though so good luck actually working on a rust project

(Semi kidding, the project I work on is very big)