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vmasto on April 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

> I wanted to pick on Spotify and Atom more in my blog post, but both Spotify and Atom have cleaned up their act

Can you please share how you came to the conclusion that Spotify is made with Electron? (hint: it's not)

hoschicz on April 11, 2017 [–]

It uses WebViews heavily.

vmasto on April 11, 2017 | [–]

I'm not saying it doesn't, it's built on Chromium Embedded Framework.

The author is claiming it's built on Electron, which is false.

josephg on April 13, 2017 | | [–]

Yep sorry about that - I've corrected the mistake in the blog post.

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