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Re:Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without... by drinchev on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:14PM (#15241600)
macOS offers WKWebView [1], which essentially uses internal webkit ( safari ) for running the application.

And since all libraries are already on your OS, the build is really small, as well as the memory footprint.

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview

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Re:Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without... by szastupov on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:17PM (#15242784)
Slack used to use WebKit but they migrated to Electron for various reasons explained in their blog post https://slack.engineering/building-hybrid-applications-with-...
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