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by chubot 2045 days ago
Has anyone tried Cobalt? It looks like something based on it could be an alternative to Electron.

https://cobalt.foo/

It's meant for embedded but that probably just means it's easy to build and uses low memory.

A high-performance, small-footprint platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS to run applications, including the YouTube TV app.

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Cobalt lags on modern web APIs pretty badly. I wouldn't recommend it.
Can you elaborate on that?

To be clear I wasn't suggesting that Cobalt is a replacement for Electron. Electronic has a lot of its own APIs too.

Rather, I wonder if Cobalt could be better than Servo along some dimensions as an engine for something like Electron.