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by watermans 2866 days ago
> Chromium is awesome, it really is. But not for embedders.

> the API is currently available for C++ only and requires Direct3D 11 on Windows and Metal on macOS.

“Embedders” here seems to mean “people who want to embed a web UI in a desktop application.” This confused me at first because I wondered why an embedded systems UI framework only supported Windows and macOS instead of Windows and small Unixes.

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"Embedding" is often the term used to describe using a scripting language runtime within a larger app, for example embedding a Lua runtime in a game or a Javascript engine in a database. I'd imagine that was the context for using that term here.
Thanks for the tip, will update the language to clarify.