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Re:Actually Portable Executables by Nextgrid on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:39AM (#26292973)
Technically, I guess you could use this to compile a universal browser binary that would run on all platforms. However, this wouldn't solve any of the problems caused by Electron.
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Re:Actually Portable Executables by dj_mc_merlin on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:55AM (#26293422)
I think his point was that with Cosmopolitan native binaries one would no longer need Electron to provide cross-platform binaries. There is a lack of good GUI frameworks to build this native Electron replacement with though, nor is it certain the effort would not be too high.
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Re:Actually Portable Executables by darkfirefly on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:41AM (#26292986)
Or really any of the problems Electron attempts to solve; the GUI toolkits are still not (generally) not cross-platform in the way Electron is.
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