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I think what is meant is that while some electron apps are popular in the developer demographic (i.e. VS Code) the average desktop user does not run many of the

I think what is meant is that while some electron apps are popular in the developer demographic (i.e. VS Code) the average desktop user does not run many of then, and is more likely to use desktop apps written in non-web technologies (VLC, Transmission, Office, and whatever it is people use these days)

candiddevmike 6y ago
As far as I know Discord, Skype, and Slack are all electron based. Office is mostly used online. Electron is a really easy way to add Linux support to your app.
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Barrin92 6y ago
Slack, Spotify, Signal and Whatsapp desktop, Skype, Discord, MS Teams are all built on web tech. I think even Office 365 nowadays has a lot of the UI stuff written in react native. A lot of older linux software is non-web based but that's not the average desktop user.
- jjnoakes 6y ago
  > I think even Office 365 nowadays has a lot of the UI stuff written in react native. Where can I read about this?
  - Barrin92 6y ago
    I think I read about this on twitter from one of the webpack devs a few years ago, might have been this chain. (https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128 https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128) I think for react native in windows apps more generally the github page is a good start https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows