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It's built on Electron[0] which is built on Chromium, so it's very much building on the work of a larger browser and just adding a (seemingly) very different UI
by lucideer 11y ago
It's built on Electron[0] which is built on Chromium, so it's very much building on the work of a larger browser and just adding a (seemingly) very different UI experience.
[0] http://electron.atom.io/ http://electron.atom.io/
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- amelius 11y ago> ... built on ... built on ... Well, considering the dependencies, it is impressive that it still is lightweight :)
- PeCaN 11y agoIt's "lightweight" in terms of UI, not in terms of speed or (especially) file size. The user experience is not bloated and it stays out of your way, but it is very much not a small program. Electron-based anything is huge, on the order of ~100MB.