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by kodablah 2949 days ago
Oh for sure. I am watching https://github.com/zserge/webview/issues/85 like a hawk and have even tried to do some self-contained binaries w/ the new WinRT libs myself with limited luck (because of the UWP packaging). I personally won't use it from Go if I can't distribute a single binary.

I have used CEF and while I love the abstraction, it comes w/ baggage. I ship CEF along w/ an app (it's the browser I'm typing this from now) and just libcef.dll is 91MB, not counting some of the tiny ancillaries. I think you are on the exact right approach and even if you want a CEF, just make sure it's not the preferred option on any platform. I have heard that MS people are working towards a usable Edge shared lib elsewhere, we'll see.