I mean, there's already Visual Code, an Electron IDE pretty much.
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.
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Re: Show HN: Quark-IDE and a JavaScript runtime to build cross-platform desktop apps
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Ah it depends on Electron,....
It's a shared electron context, it addresses one of the many critiques of electron (that each electron app is an entirely separate instance of Chrome), so each "sketch" while having the capabilities of electron only have the performance impact of a browser tab. This is especially useful for "utility applications".
Great job explaining that. I couldn't have said that well myself. :P. That's exactly what it is.
Re: Show HN: Quark-IDE and a JavaScript runtime to build cross-platform desktop apps
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Ah utilities of 100MB size then.
~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 ( https://dash.quarkjs.io/ ). None of the apps is above 2MB.
My task manager shows otherwise for an Electron tab.