[jonathanstrange]

Skype was never a nicely working Qt program, I remember articles about their ultra-aggressive anti-reverse engineering coding techniques from 10 years ago or older. They used self-modifying code and undocumented opcodes, active prevention of debuggers and disassemblers, etc., basically every trick in the book to keep someone from finding out what Skype is actually doing.

[Erlich_Bachman]

But it worked... nicely. Meaning it did what it was supposed to do at least, quickly, with little resources, few bugs etc.

[michaelt]

I'm an Electron-hater in general, but are you forgetting the fact Skype for Linux didn't support group video calls until the Electron version?

[pmlnr]

This is simply not true.

[michaelt]

Then why do I see people from 2016 saying

> "Skype For Linux does not support group video calling" [1]

and articles from 2017 saying

> "The latest update to the Skype Linux client makes it possible to place group video calls on Linux, [...] Electron-based app [...] This is the first update to the popular VoIP app since Microsoft retired the Qt-based Skype 4.3 [2]

Plus I was personally there, trying to make group video calls from Linux in 2016. So I've seen this firsthand.

What makes you think what I say isn't true?

[1] https://www.quora.com/Can-I-make-and-join-group-calls-with-S... [2] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/skype-linux-now-lets-mak...

[buboard]

Thats no reason to switch to electon though