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Maybe there's a specific point about multithreading im not giving enough weight, but Electron apps are already benefiting from using Rust.
Discord uses it in their client (noted here though sparse on details; not the focus of that article). Aside from wasm, you also have the option of compiling a native node module. Example. And there are other ways to call a separate binary to do work that isn't ideal for Js.

Personally I didn't find the neon bindings any harder than wasm-bindgen, and in my use cases thus far I haven't had a reason to prefer wasm. It's a cool option to have though!

Wholeheartedly agree on the ease of web style gui development compared to other options.