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Some common and widely used electron applications are VSCode, Spotify, and Slack. I think Microsoft teams might also be electron based but I'm not sure. There are many more as well.

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Isn't Spotify for Linux in C++ with GTK?

    $ ldd /usr/bin/spotify | grep gtk
            libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 (0x00007f06b545d000)

How do I check if it is an electron app?

I believe Teams just switched to Edge WebView instead of Electron. The point remains that native applications are starting to only be specialty applications like games, CAD/CAM, Creative Suite, etc where you need a lot of access to compute power.

I think we will see more web based versions of those speciality applications. There is already an Autocad running in browser.

You know, I forgot about WebGPU. If you have GPU Compute support I could see a full featured web version being technically possible. AutoCAD Web is really limited compared to the native application.

The Web is just fulfilling Java's 'Write Once Run Everywhere' promise.

Sure. But I don't use those.

Have you used any of them "at least once in your life"?

Not the OP, but no, I have not. Nor do I intend to. Ever.

I don't have a dog in this fight but I think it is safe to say it is rare to never have used it, if only out of curiosity.

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