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Electron (while inside Atom) started out its life as a WebView from WebKit.framework, but they realized there are too many downsides to that. So they forked Chr
by sbjs 8y ago
Electron (while inside Atom) started out its life as a WebView from WebKit.framework, but they realized there are too many downsides to that. So they forked Chromium to add it to a Node process and wired it into Node's libuv, which is all Electron really is. So yes it's heavier weight, but now you have Developer Tools built in.
- nojvek 8y agoWhat would be really awesome is if Electron somehow managed to use shared resources if the Chrome was already open and not be a giant memory hog. That's the biggest downside to Electron I see. You can create some fast performant UIs in it, but just a blank view is a big memory hit.