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Re:GTK 4.0 Released by topspin on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:52PM (#25451381)
That's about one order of magnitude smaller than Electron. Good to know.

My gtk-rs project is intended to replace a small, self contained win32 application. The application is 132KB. So although 5MB is small it's an oom larger than my benchmark.

However, my gtk-rs hello, world GUI application is 14.6MB in release mode and that does not include the GTK DLLs that are also needed. Yikes. That's crazy.

Perhaps 5MB is a reasonable price to pay for cross platform GUI. Not taking 7+ seconds to build a GUI hello, world would be nice as well.

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Re:GTK 4.0 Released by lights0123 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:51AM (#25455526)
There's also https://tauri.studio, which uses Chromium Edge on Windows and WebKit on Linux and macOS. You can get ~2MB binaries with it.

(that's a Rust-specific framework, but the underlying webview library is just a C library)

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