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RStudio is transitioning to Electron from QTWebEngine

• SiriusLi 4y ago
  I doubt this will be a step forward. RStudio performance was fine the way it was.
  • AuthorizedCust 4y ago
    QT is kludgy. Too many UI issues are directly caused by it. I’m glad it’s going to Electron.
    • yellowapple 4y ago
      > QT is kludgy. And Electron ain't?
• teruakohatu 4y ago
  Not sure how I feel about this but when running Rstudio on Windows, when needing to interface with Windows-only ArcGIS, every so often it won't start and I need to disable hardware acceleration rendering. Hopefully this fixes that ongoing issue.
• cyber_kinetist 4y ago
  Wait, so they were using QtWebEngine not as a way to just embed simple web pages, but to make full-fledged interfaces in HTML+JS, essentially using it like Electron (before Electron was born)? While ignoring the rest of the entire Qt landscape? That’s totally bonkers, it’s like taking a screwdriver and using it as a nail! I mean it works, it is one of the possible ways to serve web applications for cross-platform, but oh god that was why the whole UI was god damn slow. (Even if QtWebEngine is wrapper of Chromium it’s incredibly slow for some reason and isn’t really equipped well to run full-fledged JS applications.)