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Chrome: Is electron without electron

Teams: Was electron

Steam: Valve is deeply invested in Linux, this isn't them just shipping an app. Different category.

Jetbrains: Java

Cursor: Electron

Discord: Electron

Matlab: Java

ABI compatibility doesn't matter for any of your examples.



> Different category

Isn’t Steam mostly webviews though ?

> Java

Well.. It’s not that massively different from running Qt apps in Gnome, though?

> ABI compatibility

I’m sure it matters for Swing to an large extent. Of course it the problem of the people developing the UI framework rather than the end app




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