Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
by gessha on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:38PM
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Seeing “War Thunder” on their jumbotron, maybe they have other things in mind with “secret weapons” rofl
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
by cyberax on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:28PM
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Yeah. It's a one-man company that has great tech, but very little capacity to build an ecosystem around it.
A comparable ecosystem is QML in QT, but Sciter is an order of magnitude leaner and faster.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
by rubymamis on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:56PM
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How exactly QML is not lean and fast? I’ve built and app that is both in QML and Qt[1][2].
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
by cyberax on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:24PM
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The _entire_ Sciter SDK is 8Mb, and it can go even lower. This includes a scripting language and an HTML/CSS renderer. It starts in milliseconds and can work over a raw framebuffer.
My friends are using it for an industrial controller that can boot in half a second after a power outage.
I'm not saying that QML is bad, it just is much more massive.
oh neat, I like learning about “secret weapons” like lisp/erlang
> for some of the most prominent antivirus products on the market: Norton Antivirus and Internet Security, Comodo Internet Security, ESET Antivirus, BitDefender Antivirus, and others.
I saw that sentence ending differently in my head...
It just doesn’t seem like a very strong claim, that all these products which don’t really hinge on having great (or even good) UIs consider Sciter to be their secret weapon.