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Re:Ode to the M1 by the_gipsy on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:29AM (#37107516)
If somebody just made Electron into a HTML/CSS/JavaScript engine capable of opening just the HTML/etc parts from, say, an HTTP server, and then shipped it to all users worldwide...
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Re:Ode to the M1 by raverbashing on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:35AM (#37107552)
Heh

I wonder if anyone did that comparison, an Electron app vs Chrome + a local copy of node+express whatever running the backend

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Re:Ode to the M1 by wiseowise on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:00AM (#37108026)
Why does it have to be node and express? You can compile lightweight Go, C++, Rust binaries.
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