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That's why we end up with many Electron applications. I mean even big companies like Slack or Spotify use Electron.

Spotify is CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) as is the Adobe CC desktop application.

CEF is geared toward native C++ and is probably more of a Qt alternative than Electron in that regard.

I can confirm Spotify GNU/Linux client appears to use libcef. I was surprised! I had read some old Internet posts that claimed Spotify GNU/Linux client was using Qt. (I have no idea about old versions of the GNU/Linux client.)

When I run command "ldd" on my Spotify GNU/Linux client binary, I see "libcef.so". And, I can see:

$ ls -l /usr/share/spotify/libcef.so

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 147980856 Sep 15 06:13 /usr/share/spotify/libcef.so

That's a big library!

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