I remember trying to write something in it and the performance was atrocious, it used masses of memory and I hadn't even really done much. I wasn't anything like the developer I am now back then of course, I was an undergraduate CS student, but still... also yes, the documentation was awful! The experience for an Electron developer today is far superior with documentation, performance and all sorts so much better before you even start doing work on making it go fast.

I'll pause now for my regular appreciation of what the Visual Studio Code team have managed to do with Electron.