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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by dwaite on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @02:05PM (#19155707)
My understanding is that Windows has an odd memory allocation system where each DLL has its own allocator. Qt historically wasn't designed for that; it will allocate and return objects on the heap with the understanding that user code will free them.

They may have solved this since by using a custom allocator on windows for Qt types.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by simion314 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @02:27PM (#19155963)
Is this related to statically linking? HOW are alternatives like Electron? can you bundle your Electron app into a big binary file ? From my experience in year back when doing desktop apps there was never a pressure to combine your dependencies into 1 big binary
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