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Is there any difference in memory/battery footprint? I imagine that "problem" would still exists, because it's using Chrome underneath. Decreasing build sizes i
by hiphipjorge 9y ago
Is there any difference in memory/battery footprint? I imagine that "problem" would still exists, because it's using Chrome underneath. Decreasing build sizes is a great improvement though!
- kitsunesoba 9y agoSeeing that it's macOS only for now, it's probably using WKWebView underneath (same as Safari) which is considerably easier on resources than Chromium is. A web wrapper that uses the system's resident web renderer would be a wonderful alternative to electron. A Linux build could also use WebKit, and perhaps the Windows version could be based on Edge.
- endergen 9y agoThis is exactly what it does, wraps WebView. I don't do much Windows desktop programming these days, never have for Linux. I assume there are similar built in webviews that can be used for them too.
- lenkite 9y agoThere is already an OSS project that attempts to do this - a wrapper around the system native browser for all platforms. See https://nodekit.io/ https://nodekit.io/.