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I'd really like to see Sciter take off to mainstream. If I was asked to do an application with specific custom designed UI, I'd use Sciter. I have given it a g

I'd really like to see Sciter take off to mainstream. If I was asked to do an application with specific custom designed UI, I'd use Sciter. I have given it a go some months ago, alongside with Delphi and it's really really easy to get started. It's not open source yet, but... hey! it doesn't have to be to be to be successful. Of course, Terra Informatica doesn't have the same level of marketing budget than Microsoft/GitHub to promote it as Electron, but a project can rise to relevance by its own merits I believe. I usually err on the side of naïvety for these cases.

zem 5y ago
sciter is pretty successful already - https://sciter.com/ https://sciter.com/ lists a number of recognisable commercial users and estimates 340 million installs over its lifetime. i very much doubt it will go mainstream without being open sourced though; closed source is simply a mindshare killer for this kind of developer-focused project.
- AlbertoGP 5y ago
  There was a crowdfunding campaign in 2020 through Kickstarter that only reached 1/10th of its funding goal: https://terrainformatica.com/2020/09/07/open-sourcing-the-sciter/ https://terrainformatica.com/2020/09/07/open-sourcing-the-sc... CA$ 100 got you immediate access to the source code under GPL or 4-clause BSD, CA$ 500 got you additionally a lifetime commercial license, etc. One of their customers commented this: > If people want good software they should pay for good software It’s simple as that. > I dont care about bloated electron apps. They are competition. > > Sciter gives me a competitive advantage and it going open source kills that. > As a paying customer I hate that. Above some critical mass of customers, it might be better off not being open source both for its creator and for its users.