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by IamCarbonMan 3221 days ago
That's still JS. React Native doesn't get rid of JS, it just exposes native platform APIs to JS.
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novembermike 3221 days ago
JS isn't the problem though. V8 is pretty efficient and lightweight. The problem is that Electron pulls in all of the DOM stuff when there are lighter alternatives built into most operating systems.
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mamcx 3220 days ago
> V8 is pretty efficient and lightweight

How much lightweight? Similar to Lua?

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