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by dotdi 1987 days ago
I don't question that their web-apps are good. I also didn't imply the native applications were any good.

But there is absolutely no reason for a mail client or calendar to use gigabytes of RAM and have significant impact on battery life. Which is bound to happen if you bundle Chromium et al. and run the webapps in it.
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ripley12 1987 days ago
It's unlikely that they'll be bundling Chromium with the individual apps, at least on Windows:

"In the future, the Evergreen WebView2 Runtime plans to ship with future releases of Windows." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

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dotdi 1986 days ago
This is literally the second sentence in the link you cite:

> The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge (Chromium) as the rendering engine to display the web content in native applications.

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ripley12 1986 days ago
Yes, I know. My point was that it’s not like Electron where they ship Chromium with every app, it’s more like a browser tab in terms of resource consumption.
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