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I saw the Codex Micro launch and thought "I could build that in a weekend" - so I did. It's about as useless as it looks, but it was a genuinely fun weekend. Firmware, CAD and the …

Great job explaining that. I couldn't have said that well myself. :P. That's exactly what it is.

It's not an electron IDE like VSCOde or Atom. But an IDE and a JavaScript runtime that helps you build and run electron applications.

~100Kb* Only as much as is the actual application logic and bundled dependencies. Which for most cases is usually a few kilobytes or a megabyte. You can checkout the Quark appstore…

I would recommend distributing binaries from a dedicated release server combined with a CDN. Possibly digital ocean spaces. It really increases download speeds for end user as comp…

For my project (quarkjs.io), I went for https://comodosslstore.com . They have the cheapest certificates I could find (at ~75USD), also they are the only ones issuing certificates …

No. Code signing is very different. Checksum would only work for developers on linux. Without code signing certificate, MacOS would straight refuse to run the app and windows will …

I've submitted a response on GitHub.

I would recommend code-signing the build before distributing.

Yes. You are right here. It does takes away from version control systems. But the thing is that this functionality is not forced upon you. You can still choose to code in your real…

Nope. I believe they claim to do almost the same thing. But this project never took off.

If their software product feels threatened by something that a developer came out of his basement. Perhaps it's time for them to rethink their entire strategy.

I would disagree. What Quark offers is much more. You don't have to learn a new language. You have access to this massive javascript ecosystem. And it has out of the box support fo…

Well the first difference here is that Quark is a free software, Adobe Air is not. I din't know enough about adobe Air to comment on technical differences, but one thing that strik…

I had that initially on my road-map and that surely could be done. I have a few ideas on how to implement a "no runtime found" situation, but that is not happening in near future.

Thanks. :)

While all of that is true, it is also incredibly powerful, giving you access to all of the Node.js and electron's API. Plus very flexible with the tools of your choice as we use we…

> It looks great, and I understand the use-case. But the downside I see is that while Quark is lightweight it still has a ton of dependencies. We have a ton of dependencies so that…

> Why is this being promoted as a feature? Of course you wouldn't want to make a copy of GUI framework for each user's project. That's quite a stretch for a per-project config file…

Well that's a very thoughtful question and I'm glad you made it. I literally woke up from sleep to answer it. Let me take them one by one. > sketches are effectively extensions ins…