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XMusic: A 10MB Cross-Platform Music Player Built with C++

DEV Community·setoutsoft·27 days ago
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In an era dominated by Electron and web technologies, we seem to have forgotten that desktop applications should be lighter and faster . Have you ever encountered these frustrations? ❌ Your simple music player takes 200+ MB of RAM ❌ Startup time exceeds 5-10 seconds ❌ Distribution requires bundling Chromium or heavy runtime libraries ❌ Performance feels sluggish on older hardware XMusic was born to solve these problems. 🚀 Performance That Speaks for Itself Here's what makes XMusic stand out: Metric XMusic Typical Electron App Qt Application Memory Usage ~10 MB 200-500 MB 80-150 MB Startup Time 710ms* 5-10s 2-5s Binary Size 15-25 MB 100-300 MB 50-200 MB Dependencies None (single file) Node.js + Chromium Qt runtime libs *Note: 625ms is spent on SDL audio initialization; the UI itself launches in just **85ms . All libraries are statically compiled into the final executable — one file handles everything .…

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