Is Electron safe to use? - Electron Community

Is Electron safe to use?

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If you download Electron from the official website or our official discord server.
We guarantee Electron is 99.9% is safe to use!

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But my anti virus blocked it?

The reason why it's being detected as a virus is due to the fact that Electron file are obfuscated.
"Obfuscation/Obfuscated": In software development, obfuscation is the deliberate act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans to understand.