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Some common and widely used electron applications are VSCode, Spotify, and Slack. I think Microsoft teams might also be electron based but I'm not sure. There a

Some common and widely used electron applications are VSCode, Spotify, and Slack. I think Microsoft teams might also be electron based but I'm not sure. There are many more as well.

TekMol 5y ago
Sure. But I don't use those.
- omarhaneef 5y ago
  Have you used any of them "at least once in your life"?
  - doctor_lollipop 5y ago
    Not the OP, but no, I have not. Nor do I intend to. Ever.
    - omarhaneef 5y ago
      I don't have a dog in this fight but I think it is safe to say it is rare to never have used it, if only out of curiosity.
  - TekMol 5y ago
    No
OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I believe Teams just switched to Edge WebView instead of Electron. The point remains that native applications are starting to only be specialty applications like games, CAD/CAM, Creative Suite, etc where you need a lot of access to compute power.
- neoberg 5y ago
  I think we will see more web based versions of those speciality applications. There is already an Autocad running in browser.
  - OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
    You know, I forgot about WebGPU. If you have GPU Compute support I could see a full featured web version being technically possible. AutoCAD Web is really limited compared to the native application. The Web is just fulfilling Java's 'Write Once Run Everywhere' promise.
hpb42 5y ago
Isn't Spotify for Linux in C++ with GTK? $ ldd /usr/bin/spotify | grep gtk libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 (0x00007f06b545d000) How do I check if it is an electron app?