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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by drblast on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:48PM (#18636411)
I haven't used electron, but in 2007 xulrunner was such a pain in the ass to write code for it wasn't worth the effort for anything where you didn't absolutely need an embedded browser, and even then there were better options.

Documentation was poor or non-existent and IIRC the API was based on the half-baked XPCOM because COM and CORBA were all the rage at the time it was created.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by zmix on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:02PM (#18636863)
> Documentation was poor or non-existent

That's absolutley not true.

"Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" has been published before 2004. It is still online: http://mb.eschew.org/

XUL (and assorted technologies) is/were broadly documentet on MDN.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by Rondom on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:32PM (#18644976)
Not to mention xulplanet.com which had been very helpful as well.
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