[matzipan]

I've been spending a lot of time in the embedded area lately (sub-200Mhz 32k RAM automotive systems, firmware and fpgas) and I agree with you. But there's always tradeoffs. In this case you're trading some memory (which is cheap nowadays) for up-to-date, secure, usable apps, which seems to be a pretty complex thing to do. Nobody solved it so far. The people using node-webkit are offloading the library compatibility issues to the people who built Chromium and are provided with a consistent container to run their application in.

[toyg]

Or in other words, they use a poor man's Java vm, except bigger and more fragile.

[fredsir]

To be honest, chrome-"native"-packaged-webapps, or what you wanna call them, feels a whole lot better to use than any java based GUI app I have ever used, including JetBrains products.

I hate to use any of these chrome-"native"-packaged-webapp, though. I just hate java based GUI apps more.