[sesteel]

I just went through a simple exercise; for my tests, a minimal JavaFX app starts at ~100MB while a minimal Electron app starts around ~65MB.

[perrylaj]

Not sure how you built your minimal example, but current versions of Java will allow you to produce much smaller native bundles using jlink. Steve Perkins did a nice little writeup with an example repo at https://github.com/steve-perkins/jlink-demo.

[Aaronmacaron]

This is only the case if you bundle the JVM with your application. Without the JVM you can write a simple application without exceeding the .jar file size of 1 MB.

[whyever]

If you just count the JS and HTML, then a minimal Electron app is (hopefully) also tiny.

[Semaphor]

That's not the same though. You have to bundle electron to run your app. Your Java app is fine as long as Java is installed.

[whyever]

Yes, but theoretically Electron apps could use the browser. (I think Google killed that option though.)

[PinkMilkshake]

Yeah, it would be nice if the API's were standardized and then every browser had an "App Mode".

[sesteel]

I should have been more explicit; this is the default in memory footprint of a simple hello world app. I didn't really try to reduce the heap or stack of the JVM, I'm sure that would help.

[Aaronmacaron]

Oh I think this is a misunderstanding. I thought you were talking about the binary file size which is very big for electron apps since they ship a full-blown browser. It is possible that JavaFX apps also use a lot of memory (RAM) but I was referring to the file size of the .jar file of a JavaFX app.

[olzd]

So? If you want a lightweight app, both JavaFX and Electron are bad.