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> In almost 10 years, Sciter UI engine has become the secret weapon of success oh neat, I like learning about “secret weapons” like lisp/erlang > for some of
by philsnow 2y ago
> In almost 10 years, Sciter UI engine has become the secret weapon of success
oh neat, I like learning about “secret weapons” like lisp/erlang
> for some of the most prominent antivirus products on the market: Norton Antivirus and Internet Security, Comodo Internet Security, ESET Antivirus, BitDefender Antivirus, and others.
I saw that sentence ending differently in my head...
It just doesn’t seem like a very strong claim, that all these products which don’t really hinge on having great (or even good) UIs consider Sciter to be their secret weapon.
- gessha 2y agoSeeing “War Thunder” on their jumbotron, maybe they have other things in mind with “secret weapons” rofl
- cyberax 2y agoYeah. It's a one-man company that has great tech, but very little capacity to build an ecosystem around it. A comparable ecosystem is QML in QT, but Sciter is an order of magnitude leaner and faster.
- rubymamis 2y agoHow exactly QML is not lean and fast? I’ve built and app that is both in QML and Qt[1][2]. [1] https://www.get-notes.com/ https://www.get-notes.com/ [2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
- cyberax 2y agoThe _entire_ Sciter SDK is 8Mb, and it can go even lower. This includes a scripting language and an HTML/CSS renderer. It starts in milliseconds and can work over a raw framebuffer. My friends are using it for an industrial controller that can boot in half a second after a power outage. I'm not saying that QML is bad, it just is much more massive.
- rubymamis 2y agoA QML app can be compiled to C++ and reap the exact same benefits with the right configurations when compiling Qt from source.