Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by vmasto on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:52AM (#14089195)

I'll give it a go to call you on "bullshit": Spotify is not built on Electron. (Surprise, the author is wrong).

It is and was, however, always built on Chromium Embedded Framework (the UI), even when you say it "was" fast.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by carlosrg on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:57PM (#14089971)

Chrome was released as a beta the 2 September 2008. The first version of Spotify was released 7 October 2008, and the download size was around 5 MB. I know because I've using Spotify since it was invite-only, back in those days.

So according to you Spotify was able to build a full featured client using a beta technology in a month. Impressive.

Anyway, here's the version I'm speaking about, built by the people that developed uTorrent IIRC, by the way: http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots/mp3-and-audio/spotif...

Also even if the current version is not using Electron, it's still using Chrome, so the same argument applies.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by automathematics on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:59PM (#14089988)

Yep! And IFRAMES. Oh god, the horror.

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