> Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then?

> To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer.

When I worked at Microsoft, one team I was on, very ironically, had a really hard time finding Windows developers.

We actually resorted to drawing straws to see who on the team would have to learn native Windows development!

IMHO a large part of the problem is that native Windows development is a career dead end, unless you work at Microsoft, there are relatively few well paying jobs for what is now a niche skillset.

Unless one works for the games industry, does IT at big corp, embedded devices programming.

Games pays badly, big corp IT pays badly, and unfortunately despite the difficulty, embedded tends to pays poorly unless you are at one of the big tech companies.

And yet the reason why they pay badly is the endless queue of people trying to get one of those jobs.

None of which are particularly sexy, unfortunately.

Given the hoards of candidates for game development and IoT jobs, putting up with the pay and hours, at least two of those are quite sexy.

Game development, maybe. The IoT people just want something to pay their bills.

Visual Studio installer uses WPF.

They did indeed try to use Electron, and the backslash was big enough they went back to WPF.