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by Crysstalis 1403 days ago
It is using a webkit view because currently it is the easiest way to display content from an external process in a cross-platform way. It does not have to be that way though: https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2021/05/18/merengue-cambalache...

>Ideally I would use an embedded Wayland compositor widget instead of a webview and broadway, but unfortunately there is only an old non working prototype called Wakefield and finishing it is a project on its own. In any case replacing the webview with a wayland compositor widget would be trivial.