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Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Chrome is like the elephant that comes and sits on my laptop. Would be unusable without the great suspender.

I got a recent Great Suspender update that blew away my settings for the plugin. Did this happen to you too? It made me sad.

Yeah that got me too. Small price, although, i'm tempted to switch to firefox after reading comments here.

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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I swapped when the new FF came out. Was sick of chrome using 3–4gb of memory and bringing my computer to a grinding vault. 3 times the number of tabs in Firefox and I have 0 issues. I recommend FF now.

I used Firefox for a couple of years for the same reason, but the new release broke my keyboard shortcuts and VimFx plugin. Now I use opera and cVim, it's even better. Much faster to start than chrome, shortcuts work, syncing works, vim works, developer tools are great, no bloated background services and square tabs!

Tridactyl works fine in FF. (Vim add-on)

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Not a simple rewrite, but neither a task that require a C wizard... The current version of libui-node implements C++ classes that wraps libui C function. They are exposed directly to JS. This experiment implements N-API C functions that wraps libui C function. Then, a set of JS classes wrap them, offering the same public API as libui-node. Currently, I implemented windows, boxes, and multiline entry. I have to compar…

FYI, I just wrote the comparison I was speaking above: https://github.com/parro-it/libui-napi/issues/11

Pretty impressive results!

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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FYI, I just wrote the comparison I was speaking above: https://github.com/parro-it/libui-napi/issues/11

Pretty impressive results!

Yes, N-API seems to be superior. And it's a particular good fit because libui itself has a C API
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