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ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

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Re: ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

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Post by Klonoar »

Please, please stop comparing built in platform webviews and alternatives like Sciter to Electron.

You can hate on Electron all you want (I do too) but it's a totally different beast to almost all these other solutions. It's all fun and games until you realize that to get half the junk Electron throws you for free, you'll wind up building it yourself in these solutions.

Re: ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

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Post by gigel82 »

est wrote: post #2

Shipping .exe and .dll directly in github source repo?

It looks like the author was trying to crowd-fund open-sourcing this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...

I think we'd be better off trying to slim down Chromium or reviving the idea of using the built-in OS WebView control (which is mostly Chromium nowadays anyway), at least that would be a standard web environment.

Re: ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable

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Post by gigel82 »

dimeatree wrote: post #6
quickthrower2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And no source code!

Check out his github profile, it exists in another repo

No, it doesn't, they're using GitHub to store binary builds of this closed-source project.
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