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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by cyberax on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:28PM (#42965070)
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.

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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by rubymamis on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:56PM (#42965338)
How exactly QML is not lean and fast? I’ve built and app that is both in QML and Qt[1][2].

[1] https://www.get-notes.com/

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by cyberax on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:24PM (#42966637)
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.

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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by rubymamis on Friday February 07, 2025 @12:55AM (#42969859)
A QML app can be compiled to C++ and reap the exact same benefits with the right configurations when compiling Qt from source.
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