VS Code is considered the best app in its class by a distant margin and it’s an electron app.
The first round of Electron apps were created by people who were simply trying to get some cross platform native version of their apps out.
It’s only been recently that companies are now creating electron apps as first class products and now those apps are doing very well.
Yes, and by now they have spent spent hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of man-years of dev time on it. And it's still the only poster child for "good Electron app"
All being equal I'd choose VSCode at this point. When I want to do something like run tests the test plugins for pretty much everything I've looked at are way better. IntelliJ has some powerful configuration capabilities that somehow always manage to be constrained in a sucky way. Support answers are like "oh you want to do THAT. No, you can't do that, read this doc" where the VSCode way would tend to not be as configurable but support the thing you actually wanted to do.
Plus VSCode plugins are majority free. It's not that I mind playing for plugins per se, but my experience with Intellij plugins has been poor, so I don't want to go through the hassle of paying to find out it's rubbish.
