NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls

Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by kaishin on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:31PM (#22426995)

I don’t see Apple going the route of bundling Chromium. Catalyst does allow porting iOS apps to macOS but it’s been not great so far.

I think there will always be a category of people who prefer using native apps for performance, security, or access to OS features. Anecdotally I looked at the apps I have installed and I found out that I don’t have many electron apps on my Mac beside chat apps and VS Code. I suspect non tech-savvy people might have even less, since they do a lot more inside their browsers compared to before.

I’m not sure what you refer to when you say “native desktop apps aren’t coming back”, given that they never left t begin with.

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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by divbzero on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:27PM (#22427530)

It doesn’t have to be Chromium. It just needs to be a browser that can be linked and launched as an app.

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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by layoutIfNeeded on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:36PM (#22428708)

It’s called a “web view” and it already exists in all of the platforms.

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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by zelly on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:21PM (#22429440)

WebView is Chromium on Windows now. The holdout is Apple. They are not known to capitulate to industry trends. Maybe this will be the first one they are forced into by popular demand.

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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by throwaway810 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:49AM (#22431974)

Good thing the web is still based on open standards instead of an (advertising) industry trend. We need more viable browser engines, not less.

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