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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by m0dest on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:16AM (#18762830)
This concern about breaking only seems true for the Node.js side. The HTML/JS/CSS running in the web view should be pretty resilient to version upgrades; web devs are used to defensive, backward-compatible design that handles multiple browser versions.

The bridge itself is API stable. evaluateJavaScript:completionHandler: isn't going anywhere.

So the question is whether it's okay to use a native web view while still bundling your own V8 + Node. That seems like an improvement to me!

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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by dchest on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @01:25PM (#18763662)
The bridge itself is API stable. evaluateJavaScript:completionHandler: isn't going anywhere.

Historically, this hasn't been the case. Apple loves to deprecate stuff (although, thankfully, they are a bit slower to remove it). Before WKWebView there was a "stable" WebView.

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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by bunnycorn on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:47PM (#18766579)
And if my memory serves me well, you couldn't even use WK version with local files! Clearly indicating that was not the way to make UIs, but to browse the real web...
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