> I remember reading old forum posts about how the Spotify port for Linux was arranged by two devs who met after work for a few hours and got it working well enough that Spotify let them release it as an unsupported client.
IIRC, Spotify "unofficial-but-official" client largely predates the Electron version and this story is from the Qt era of Spotify (which was wonderfully light and fast).
I believe it for an app that's 100% hitting remote APIs and playing sound. In my case I'm highly dependent on the host OS for about a half-dozen native modules that each have their own ultra-finicky native build environments.
IIRC, Spotify "unofficial-but-official" client largely predates the Electron version and this story is from the Qt era of Spotify (which was wonderfully light and fast).