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		quietbritishjim on Dec 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained The Bloomberg terminal is totally different from Electron apps. For a start, it's all rendered server side, as the parent comment explained.

kjhjkwher on Dec 20, 2019 [–]

It depends on what you mean by "rendered". The client side is a highly modified Chromium which runs a GTK like GUI implemented in JavaScript.

https://github.com/bloomberg/chromium.bb

So it is like Electron in that you are literally interacting with a web-browser, but one made too look like a desktop app.

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