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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by GrumpyCoder on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:42AM (#14088234)
I know I'm being completely naive but can all electron apps share one runtime (sorta like one browser with multiple tabs)?
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by jhasse on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:51AM (#14088335)
Yes, they would simply link stuff dynamically (.so, .dll, .dylib files).

But everyone is using a slightly different version of Electron and macOS and Windows don't have a good enough package manager, so everyone is static linking everything.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by alexforencich on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:04PM (#14093305)
No, that would just bring back DLL hell.
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