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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by geofft on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:25PM (#13125372)
At what point do we get an Electron runtime that can be distributed (and kept up-to-date) separately from the apps using Electron?

.NET does this, Java does this, DirectX does this, etc.

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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by swiley on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:31PM (#13125425)
Run a webserver on localhost that only accepts local connections (most golang utilities with GUIs do this) or use a sain UI framework.
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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by kethinov on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:53PM (#13125639)
I have wondered this for some time. Why is making a common runtime for Electron so difficult?
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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by strig on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:46AM (#13131630)
Looks like it is currently being worked on: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673
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