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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by Aaronmacaron on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:52AM (#18734552)
I don't think a JVM like chromium engine would really solve the problem. Most JVM end user applications ship their own JVM. By shipping your own JVM one can avoid compatibility problems and most importantly the user doesn't has to install the JVM which makes for better UX. The same would apply for Electron.

The only way I think a common runtime could work is if Electron used the Runtime of the Browser. If every browser exposed an API to run JavaScript and Render HTMl using the browser's Engine that'd be great.

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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by vincnetas on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:11PM (#18734675)
Adding to my previous comment, you can even run chrome webpage without address bar on macos : /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app=https://google.com
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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by vincnetas on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:07PM (#18734650)
Why expose api. One could run web server on localhost and thats it. Open it with any browser and enjoy your crosplatform app. I think https://blockstack.org is doing something similar.
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