Re:Ask HN: What is the JavaScript ecosystem missing right now?
by flukus on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:54AM
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Native tools that don't rely on node and electron. If javascript on the desktop is going to be an eventuality then pygtk would be a much better direction.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the JavaScript ecosystem missing right now?
by perilunar on Saturday August 26, 2017 @02:28AM
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If browsers offered an "open in a chromeless window" mode that could be called by other apps, then Electron apps wouldn't need to bundle the own browser.
We could then have downloadable apps with sizes of a few MB instead of the >100 MB monstrosities it generates now.