Re:Basic Electron Framework Exploitation
by inferiorhuman on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:44PM
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Except to run Adobe Air applications you needed to install/distribute the proprietary closed-source Adobe Air runtime.
Electron may be open source in theory, but it's developed by a fairly insular group that actively rejects improvements to portability. Getting FreeBSD patches merged back into Node was hard enough, the Electron crew simply rejects them.
Have you ever tried to build something like Electron of VS Code on FreeBSD? It's horrendous.
Re:Basic Electron Framework Exploitation
by miyoyo on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:18PM
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Except to run Electron applications you need to distribute the open source Electron runtime.
Just so happens that it's shipped with every application.
Re:Basic Electron Framework Exploitation
by benbristow on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:47PM
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True. With all binaries you’re going to be running software that’s bundled and you’re unsure what’s going on fully.
Send me the source for an Adobe Air application though and I still need to download Adobe Air proprietary tools to run it.
For an Electron application I can run it directly from open source tooling.
Electron is just web technologies wrapped with a library to call system APIs.