Ask HN: What is Spotify desktop client built with?

2 pointsby humilityabout 7 years ago

In the age of slow, heavy bug prone electron apps, the Spotify desktop client does a lot of things right - it's not too heavy on system resources, reliable and has never crashed on me, once. Does anyone know what technologies is it built with?

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AngeloAnolinabout 7 years ago

I believe they use the Chromium Embedded Framework.<p>It has been discussed on Quora [1] by some Spotify Devs.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.quora.com/How-is-JavaScript-used-within-the-Spotify-desktop-application-Is-it-packaged-up-and-run-locally-only-retrieving-the-assets-as-and-when-needed-What-JavaScript-VM-is-used" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/How-is-JavaScript-used-within-the-Spot...</a>

dv_dtabout 7 years ago

Maybe it works better on other platforms, but on Linux it's a resource hog and feels like a slow electron app..