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Re:Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices by dkersten on Sunday January 19, 2020 @08:15AM (#22091268)
> the common Electron app business case

Serious question: what is the common electron app business case?

Being able to run as a desktop app as well as in a browser?

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Re:Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices by TomMarius on Sunday January 19, 2020 @08:44AM (#22091378)
From my POI: Yes, and reuse developers and code you already have for the web version.
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Re:Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices by dkersten on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:48AM (#22091677)
Ok, thanks, that makes sense.

The reuse developers part I suppose could be achieved with QtQuick since QML is javascript based, but beyond the language, not that much else translates and you can’t completely get away from C++ for anything non-trivial, so it’s not really an electron competitor.

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Re:Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices by afiori on Monday January 20, 2020 @06:05PM (#22102804)
>Serious question: what is the common electron app business case?

Easy portability (not perfect) between all major platform

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