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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by josephg on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @04:04PM (#18764871)
> You will be hard pressed to find any Electron app that exceeds 200 MB in disk space. Most are ~50 MB.

Huh? Looking at my applications folder right now:

Atom 1.31: 822mb

Daedalus 0.8: 265mb

Mist 0.9.2: 186mb

Neon 0.0.7: 180mb

Patchwork: 185mb

Riot 0.11.4: 160mb

VS Code: 193mb

The electron framework alone is 117mb on MacOS. Honestly, how many copies of that do I need?

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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by ec109685 on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @01:27PM (#18801462)
If you have 20 such apps, you use 1% of your 250gb SSD (which is on the way low end) on redundant framework copies, with the benefit that the developer gets to test on the version of Electron you are running.
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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by applecrazy on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:37PM (#18766526)
I don't understand why apps don't download an Electron runtime on launch and store it in a shared location. That way, if apps share a required runtime version, only one copy of that version runtime exists.
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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by tuananh on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:48PM (#18767131)
carlo by Google Chrome team

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo

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