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"They seem to target similar things?" No - different. Electron was designed to run web sites pretty much as they are. It is a standalone browser combined with
by c-smile 7y ago
"They seem to target similar things?"
No - different. Electron was designed to run web sites pretty much as they are. It is a standalone browser combined with server (Node.Js) under common umbrella. So it the same client-browser thing - client in one process, server part in another process. Communication between them uses IPC rather than over-the-wire as in case of browser/remote-server.
And Sciter is an embeddable thing - it runs in the same GUI thread as the application. So Sciter is for native applications where window layout is defined in HTML/CSS terms.
So the only common things between Electron and Sciter is use of HTML/CSS.
Sciter actually is closer to WPF (HTML/CSS instead of XAML) than to Electron.
Or to GTK for that matter - GTK also uses CSS styled DOM as does Sciter.