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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by frou_dh on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:43AM (#16069597)
I assume a lot of the developers rely on (or at least have an affinity for) the niceties of Chromium/Blink. So using whatever webview is provided natively by the OS wouldn't be a straight swap.
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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by roryisok on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:50AM (#16069637)
maybe not, but electron requires some refactoring and learning a few new things by itself, it's also not a straight swap from a web app.
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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by frou_dh on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:13AM (#16069752)
Win7, for better or worse, is still a relevant OS. What engine does its native webview use? Some old IE thing that is garbage in comparison to Chromium?
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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by roryisok on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:04AM (#16070353)
Valid point. But also worth pointing out that react native doesn't support win 7 either (probably for that exact reason), and is often suggested as an electron alternative.
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