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by v3ss0n 542 days ago
Who the hell cares about 100mb while it gives cross platform rendering capabilities, high performance GPU support and stability?

You haven't tried other none web rendering engines and how many head aches it gives if you are saying this.
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BeefWellington 542 days ago
> while it gives cross platform rendering capabilities

This is useful primarily to the author, not the user.

This could easily be done cross-platform in a few other ways that don't require a full-fledged browser implementation.

> high performance GPU support

Browser GPU support is not high performance.

> and stability

Do you mean stability of execution, e.g.: not crashing? Or stability in terms of development target?

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viraptor 542 days ago
> You haven't tried other none web rendering engines

You responded to my comment where I did. I hate all the GUI frameworks the same and know a few of them. It's still unnecessary to use electron in a lot of places where it's used today.

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madduci 542 days ago
I personally care. And misusing a browser engine for this is just terrible.

It could have been a native UI application, there are many cross platform native UI frameworks out there, just saying

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