[andrew_shay]

Sciter is great. It's similar to Electron but very light on resources. The creator is very active on the forums too. It'd be great to have a GUI/widget toolkit that would look native across all platforms but also work be valid HTML/CSS/JS on current browsers. It really feels like there is a lot of potential for sciter to take over.

[tored]

Thinking of writing an app in Sciter. I’m doing a mixin approach with my own custom backend against Sciter pre-built dll.

What would you say is the pros and cons of Sciter?

Is it so lightweight as it claims?

[andrew_shay]

Pros: It is as light weight as it claims (at least when I did a basic test I was more than happy). Seamless deployment, no setup or dependencies or anything. For instance I'm using Rust and it was the only front end that _just worked_ when I started a year or 2 ago. The creator is very active and very helpful on the forums. He will answer your questions and give you the solution you need, but also give you a more proper solution, if applicable. It appears cross platform support _just works_ as well, but I haven't tried yet. It's nice that it's HTML, CSS, and JS so you can share knowledge among projects.

Cons: Not as much documentation and help online as you might be used to from larger projects, but the documentation and samples are good enough if you're willing to grep and dig a little. It doesn't have the same parity as exiting browsers, so some existing web frameworks (like bootstrap) won't work (at least I couldn't get it to work). No debugger that can step through JS that I can find. But it does have "inspector.exe" which is like a simple Developer Tools from browsers to see the HTML with an active JS interpreter.