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Re:Neutralinojs – Cross-platform desktop application develop... by pimterry on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:38AM (#30242902)
> don't require you to ship a browser with your application

The key feature of Neutralino (as opposed to Electron) is that it does _not_ require you to ship a browser - it provides similar developer UX to Electron, but it uses your system's existing browser so binaries are dramatically smaller (2MB for hello world) and memory overhead is minimal (~3MB for hello world).

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Re:Neutralinojs – Cross-platform desktop application develop... by alexvoda on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:46AM (#30242978)
> but it uses your system's existing browser

According to (1) that is incorrect. It uses WebKitGTK+.

(1) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

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Re:Neutralinojs – Cross-platform desktop application develop... by sdflhasjd on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:50AM (#30243005)
Looks like that is a simplification, error, or outdated.

Neutralinojs says: "Neutralinojs doesn't bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux)"

Skimming through the source code, it appears to use WebView2 on Windows - which is Edge.

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Re:Neutralinojs – Cross-platform desktop application develop... by brabel on Monday February 07, 2022 @07:14AM (#30243733)
It's the same approach as Tauri then? Except of course, Tauri has Rust in the "backend".
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