Electron and the Decline of Native Apps

Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by tomjakubowski on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:24PM (#18632246)

I don't think Spotify is Electron. They use CEF (and sponsor its development), and client side app code is primarily in webviews, but they've been doing that for much longer than Electron has existed.

And for what it's worth, I have never been dissatisfied with Spotify's client performance on any platform (Win/Mac/Gnu+Linux+XOrg/iOS).

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Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by solarkraft on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:33PM (#18632307)

Electron seems to have become equivalent in meaning to "this uses the web and is sluggish as fuck".

I barely recognize VSCode as an Electron app, btw, it's so fast. They're doing something right.

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Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by joemi on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:12PM (#18633882)

Well then I guess it's objectively not a good Electron app, in that case.

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