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but the editor is a browser!
by liveoneggs 1y ago
but the editor is a browser!
- alternatex 1y agoAll the memory usage of a browser with the added benefit of less security :)
- Sesse__ 1y agoThis is the allure of shipping software with Electron; you get to use your familiar webdev platform, but with all those pesky security constraints gone. I mean, why else wouldn't you just have people use a web page? (OK, you also get easier access to the Start menu.)
- jonathanlydall 1y agoBeing a developer of an Electron application myself, it's probably accurate to say that Electron is a NodeJS application with APIs for interacting with instances of web renderers which themselves use a fork of Chromium to render HTML content.