Re:Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively
by koko775 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @11:55AM
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> why not use the system WebKit framework?
Same reason people often like to statically link. The system is guaranteed to be a moving target sooner or later, so new bugs may appear or disappear depending on a user-controlled action that's tedious to track if it's possible at all.
Bundled code, on the other hand, is a fixed, known quality against which bugs can be tested, or source inspected, or otherwise debugged in a way system libraries typically cannot.
Same reason people often like to statically link. The system is guaranteed to be a moving target sooner or later, so new bugs may appear or disappear depending on a user-controlled action that's tedious to track if it's possible at all.
Bundled code, on the other hand, is a fixed, known quality against which bugs can be tested, or source inspected, or otherwise debugged in a way system libraries typically cannot.