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What ever happened to Awesomium? Wasn't that more or less the same project by the same author?

by qppo 6y ago

genocidicbunny 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this is what Awesomium became. When I last looked into Awesomium (like 8 years ago now) its development seemed to have stagnated and the developer was trying to find a way to monetize it.
- qppo 6y ago
  IIRC he shutdown the website and abandoned twitter leaving paying customers high and dry. There was some talk of it last time this project made the forum rounds.
  - genocidicbunny 6y ago
    I'd like to find out more about this, because I haven't heard of that at all. That I haven't heard is not surprising though as I last looked at Awesomium a very long time ago.
    - adamjs 6y ago
      Gave more clarification on this in a reply to parent comment.
  - adamjs 6y ago
    Hi there, author of UL and Awesomium here. We didn't abandon anything, we announced to the community that we were stopping development of Awesomium (our previous Chromium fork), are going to build something new (which turned out to be UL, I wrote the rationale elsewhere in this thread), and continued to support our paid customers for years after (all licenses came with a 1 year annual support contract with option to renew, we would be in contract violation if we didn't). We did stop maintaining the free online support community which I think is where this sentiment came form. Users were upset that there were no new versions of Awesomium and there was a 4 year gap before the first alpha of Ultralight was released which left a number of users rightfully annoyed. I personally couldn't promise that were _would_ be a successor project since Ultralight was so experimental (the GPU renderer alone took about 4 years to get working on all platforms). That lack of communication and subsequent gap in updates is what led users to believe the project was abandonware (luckily, I'm here to say it isn't and we're still alive!). FWIW, Ultralight was actually built in tandem using internal feedback from our existing customers. Many of our current users are ex-Awesomium users.
    - qppo 6y ago
      Thanks for the clarification!

What ever happened to Awesomium? Wasn't that more or less the same project by the same author?

by qppo 6y ago

What ever happened to Awesomium? Wasn't that more or less the same project by the same author?

I'm pretty sure this is what Awesomium became. When I last looked into Awesomium (like 8 years ago now) its development seemed to have stagnated and the developer was trying to find a way to monetize it.

qppo 6y ago
IIRC he shutdown the website and abandoned twitter leaving paying customers high and dry. There was some talk of it last time this project made the forum rounds.
- genocidicbunny 6y ago
  I'd like to find out more about this, because I haven't heard of that at all. That I haven't heard is not surprising though as I last looked at Awesomium a very long time ago.
  - adamjs 6y ago
    Gave more clarification on this in a reply to parent comment.
- adamjs 6y ago
  Hi there, author of UL and Awesomium here. We didn't abandon anything, we announced to the community that we were stopping development of Awesomium (our previous Chromium fork), are going to build something new (which turned out to be UL, I wrote the rationale elsewhere in this thread), and continued to support our paid customers for years after (all licenses came with a 1 year annual support contract with option to renew, we would be in contract violation if we didn't). We did stop maintaining the free online support community which I think is where this sentiment came form. Users were upset that there were no new versions of Awesomium and there was a 4 year gap before the first alpha of Ultralight was released which left a number of users rightfully annoyed. I personally couldn't promise that were _would_ be a successor project since Ultralight was so experimental (the GPU renderer alone took about 4 years to get working on all platforms). That lack of communication and subsequent gap in updates is what led users to believe the project was abandonware (luckily, I'm here to say it isn't and we're still alive!). FWIW, Ultralight was actually built in tandem using internal feedback from our existing customers. Many of our current users are ex-Awesomium users.
  - qppo 6y ago
    Thanks for the clarification!