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What happens if you built a Qt app and used Qt Web Engine for the entire app, would you complain? Do you complain about Steam, GOG, or one of the other 1000 ap
by dubcanada 10y ago
What happens if you built a Qt app and used Qt Web Engine for the entire app, would you complain?
Do you complain about Steam, GOG, or one of the other 1000 apps that use Qt or what ever GUI kit and then just use an embedded browser for 90% of the app?
- monksy 10y agoI wouldn't as long as it was just the chat window and was used for formatting. Native apps generally perform better, tend to be lighter. (The slack client takes up 400mb in 8 processes.. it's basically a web app within a containing application) Steam uses a web widget for the store, but the entirety of Steam isn't built in HTML/JS. It makes sense to do it that way. If steam was entirely written in a web language you would never have the platform support that you currently have, the ability to download at the speeds that you currently have, etc.