Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by currysausage on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:51AM (#14088345)

> Nobody cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along, there's basically zero money in it

I would acutally pay Spotify extra money if they brought back the old, snappy, pre-Electron version of their Windows desktop app.

<edit>They replaced it with something that is simply too heavy to manage larger playlists (except maybe on the max-spec MBPs it's being coded on) just because they could iterate more quickly on some non-essential features which they might have packed inside a WebView, leaving essential features intact and responsive.</edit>

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by matthewmacleod on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:55AM (#14088389)

Seconded for the Mac app. The current experience is shameful.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by enobrev on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:09AM (#14088576)

I have no opinion about their app on those platforms, but as an Ubuntu user, I very much appreciate their electron app.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by nojvek on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:48AM (#14089139)

Yes, the big companies really don't give a fuck about Linux because it's user share is tiny for the desktop.

The fact that a Microsoft editor works on Linux is amazing. Underlying thanks to Electron.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by tommoor on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:57AM (#14089275)

The Spotify app is not built on Electron - it's built on CEF and always has been, author was wrong.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by tcoff91 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:31PM (#14090375)

Spotify was not always based on Chrome -- the first version came out only a month after Chrome itself first was released.

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