It’s been great to see really good examples of desktop apps built with web technologies, Atom was a real eye opener to me and has proven that web tech is indeed up to the task of building really high quality apps. As a web developer, Cordova and Electron offer new capabilities and opportunities for us to build apps, it makes a lot of sense for development teams to be able to write once and deploy anywhere.
ReactNative and projects like ReactNative Desktop are the alternative approach, using JavaScript and a subset of other web technologies(e.g. flexbox for layout) to compile to native targets so you’re getting platform specific components.
The web will win.