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minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·2 days agoFucking Chrome/Electron is why. I honestly wouldn’t mind that if they could all use the exact same runtime so the apps could be a few MB each, but nooooo.
minus-squarerarbg@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day ago400mb iphone banking app entered the chat
minus-squarenutt_goblin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·edit-22 days agoSee: Webview2 Unfortunately, it is extremely painful to work with😔 Enjoy rolling your own script versioning and update systems instead of using squirrel et al Edit: I think Tauri works by targeting this and webkitgtk via their wrapper library, unfortunately I can’t get my coworkers to write rust
minus-squaredevilish666@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoIs there any alternatives to electron ? And why people’s doesn’t move on to alternatives if electron is huge & heavy resources ?
minus-squaredbx12@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoThe alternative is “just serve it as a regular website”. It doesn’t need to be an app to do its job. Name a functionality which only exists in electron but not in the standard browser API.
Fucking Chrome/Electron is why.
I honestly wouldn’t mind that if they could all use the exact same runtime so the apps could be a few MB each, but nooooo.
400mb iphone banking app entered the chat
See: Webview2
Unfortunately, it is extremely painful to work with😔 Enjoy rolling your own script versioning and update systems instead of using squirrel et al
Edit: I think Tauri works by targeting this and webkitgtk via their wrapper library, unfortunately I can’t get my coworkers to write rust
Is there any alternatives to electron ? And why people’s doesn’t move on to alternatives if electron is huge & heavy resources ?
The alternative is “just serve it as a regular website”. It doesn’t need to be an app to do its job. Name a functionality which only exists in electron but not in the standard browser API.