Electron for a music player? It's like using matlab as a text editor.
Absolutely stupid.
Absolutely stupid.
It's just plain stupid.
And they wanted the player to work on multiple platforms, unlike say Foobar2000.
Not saying it's the best technical choice, but given that it started as a personal side project it's a hardly fair to call it "plain stupid" to use Electron for this.
Given that both MPD and Electron has Linux support, PlexAmp will get it soon enough now that it has been released to a wider audience and hopefully gets more internal support.
You mean something like VLC, mplayer, clementine, Quod Libet, [insert another massive amount of players based on gtk, python, qt, etc.]? Something tells me Electron is not the only choice.