https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/27/electron_devs_bond_at_covalence_conference/ > Analysis About 150 developers gathered at the headquarters of Slack on Friday to learn about Electron.js, the open-source, cross-platform desktop app framework upon which the IRC-for-hipsters client is built. > Felix Rieseberg, senior staff engineer at Slack, a maintainer of Electron, and organizer of the Covalence conference, opened the event in San Francisco by observing that 2019 was the year Electron grew up.