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Re:Electron 7.0 by big_chungus on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:54PM (#21350390)
You just re-invented the PWA, basically. Only modern browsers support them (though you can't guarantee eveyrone has one), so you just package and ship a web site. Of course, browser tabs themselves can take a lot of memory; a fair number take 50 megs apiece, and some take 100, so don't bet on your site necessarily only taking a few kb.
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Re:Electron 7.0 by alkonaut on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:58AM (#21352275)
Well I also need good native apis (files, hardware, OS integration, window management), and deployment scenarios like native apps.

But yes, like PWA but I want the app to run under the OS, not sandboxed in a browser.

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