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Mostly unrelated, but does anyone know how apple managed to make the macOS Apple Music app feel like electron?

I imagine that they didn’t actually use electron, but the app feels pretty far from native imo

If you sniff the network traffic you’ll find why: it essentially is a hybrid html and native app. All pages of the App Store are set up in XML and loaded server side, hardly ever cached. Just like <select> in HTML iTunes uses similar structure to instruct and deliver native or semi-native components. It’s a big web page. And it’s slower than Safari. That’s why.

Isn’t it built on their iOS application framework that lets you also compile for macOS?

I remember reading speculation about that as well. After some googling, it appears only speculation that the Music app would be built using Marzipan/Catalyst.

9to5mac writes in a correcting update that “We’ve now learned that the code for the new Music app for macOS will be based on iTunes, not iOS”.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/10/macos-10-15-itunes-standalone...

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