> They are also missing something like Electron, which is used a lot to build native cross-platform apps using web technologies.

While I am not a Windows developer in the slightest, this is sort of missing quite a bit.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/cre...

https://github.com/Microsoft/node-uwp

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/develop/winjs

Microsoft support using JS to develop desktop applications using web-tech as a first-class citizen.