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So is it Chromium-based or not? "which makes it CPU- and memory-efficient when compared to other Chromium-based solutions like Electron"
by tpmx 6y ago
So is it Chromium-based or not? "which makes it CPU- and memory-efficient when compared to other Chromium-based solutions like Electron"
- LinguaBrowse 6y agoIts UI runtime is Qt and its JS runtime is Node.js. No Chromium here :) it makes super-small, low-memory apps.
- crazygringo 6y agoYes, I suppose people could be understandably be confusing V8 with Chromium. It's using the same JavaScript engine as Chromium, which is of course developed by Chromium and is part of it, but without the rest of Chromium, as Node.js always has. It's a great example of synecdoche [1]. :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
- tpmx 6y agoV8 is tiny compared to the operating system known as chromium. Anyway, it was just a misunderstanding based on poor writing on the web page.
- danenania 6y agoLooks like it's node + QT, not chromium.
- zachrip 6y agoThey're making use of yoga (a layout engine) so I assume that it is not web based (because why would you use yoga otherwise).
- mkl 6y agoThe word "other" probably shouldn't be there. It seems to wrap Qt. From the NodeGUI page: "it is a wrapper for a native C++ widget toolkit QT".