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by topspin 2008 days ago
> There are lightweight electron alternatives

Are there? I know of alternatives, but none that are particularly 'lightweight.'

I started a new project based on gtk-rs for exactly the same reasons as you.
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jtxx 2008 days ago
I was thinking of sciter (5mb) and another similar crate that I can't remember the name for
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topspin 2008 days ago
That's about one order of magnitude smaller than Electron. Good to know.

My gtk-rs project is intended to replace a small, self contained win32 application. The application is 132KB. So although 5MB is small it's an oom larger than my benchmark.

However, my gtk-rs hello, world GUI application is 14.6MB in release mode and that does not include the GTK DLLs that are also needed. Yikes. That's crazy.

Perhaps 5MB is a reasonable price to pay for cross platform GUI. Not taking 7+ seconds to build a GUI hello, world would be nice as well.

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lights0123 2007 days ago
There's also https://tauri.studio, which uses Chromium Edge on Windows and WebKit on Linux and macOS. You can get ~2MB binaries with it.

(that's a Rust-specific framework, but the underlying webview library is just a C library)

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