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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Wouldn't it be great if there was a way for all these electron apps to share the same runtime so people don't have to bundle it with their applications.

You know, I bet if the applications without the runtime are small enough, you could probably stream them directly from the internet without even downloading anything up front!

I guess that shared runtime would need some way to browse the applications....

^(vscode gets a pass)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Use the system webview, you cowards!

Developers bundle all of Chromium, because they're afraid the OS webview will have a different browser engine. Testing is too hard…

This is such a terrible excuse — usually the same app runs in browsers too, so it already has to deal with even wider variety of browser engines.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
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