[thawaway1837]

It makes a difference though. The fact that Chromium is Electron’s backend is why MS picked Chromium to base Edge off. It’s likely they would have chosen something else if that wasn’t the case (or maybe continued with their own web tech).

[jefftk]

> It’s likely they would have chosen something else if that wasn’t the case

Brave is run by ex-Mozilla folks and started with Gecko, but switched to Blink very early on. [1] Their reasons didn't include Electron, so Microsoft's may not have either.

[1] Collection of tweets, and a response from someone at Brave: https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9jpqde/brave_br...

(Disclosure: I work for Google, though not on Chrome. Speaking only for myself.)

[roca]

> The fact that Chromium is Electron’s backend is why MS picked Chromium to base Edge off.

What evidence do you have for this?

AFAIK the main reason why Microsoft picked Chromium is that Web sites are pretty much guaranteed to work well in Chromium without Microsoft having to do any work.

[leeoniya]

> What evidence do you have for this?

they stated that their experience with CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) was instrumental in their decision.

VSCode (built on electron) was probably the main PoC for them.

[roca]

OK. I doubt the absence of CEF would have changed their decision though.

[alibert]

Not strictly evidence but look like MS is working to have a shared base install of Electron on Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...

[roca]

FWIW that is apparently for "rendering Web content" inside a Windows application, and that's what the examples do; not clear to me that it's exposing Electron.