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Interestingly enough, although steam does support linux and isn't an electron garbage, it's going to become one soon.

• xfer 7y ago
  It might as well be electron since they probably use a chromium/webkit fork to run the storeview and it's an increbile memory hog already. By going electron route atleast maintainance will be easier for them.
  • LeoNatan25 7y ago
    Not exactly. They had an embedded WebKit, but the UI itself wasn’t Electron garbage.
    • arrivance 7y ago
      It's embedded CEF, fyi. And I'm fairly certain the new friends UI (which is built using a web stack) isn't Electron, but still just leveraging their existing CEF implementation. Valve also use HTML/CSS (or some form of it) for their game UIs using Panorama, but this doesn't use any form of web browser from my knowledge.
      • LeoNatan25 7y ago
        Ah yes, mixed up my techs. I meant embedded Chromium, not WebKit.