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I don't think it's impossible to have (relatively) lightweight hybrid apps. The article focuses entirely on electron, which ships a whole browser. There are oth

I don't think it's impossible to have (relatively) lightweight hybrid apps. The article focuses entirely on electron, which ships a whole browser. There are other options, such as pywebview, that use the system native browser. Still means the underlying JS bundle has to perform, which goes the same for websites too. That said, I normally seek native apps where possible (ripcord for slack, sublime), but that's also pretty hipocrytical of me ref Kanmail!

c-smile 6y ago
Well, HTML/CSS/JS apps can fit into 5mb size even they contain HTML/CSS/JS engine linked in. I've started publishing Sciter.JS builds to prove that: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk Those binaries contain HTML5, CSS 2.1 + some Level 3 modules and full ES6 engine. 4-5mb of binaries is comparable with native hello-worlds of purely native Qt, wxWidgets, etc.
- mike_ivanov 6y ago
  Unfortunately, Sciter is not opensource. Qt and wxWidgets are.