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by joakin 4967 days ago
I'm really curious about the architecture and stack of lighttable. Please Chris if you could answer some questions it would be great.

How does it work internally?

What are the 'under the hood' differences between 0.2 and 0.1 and why?

Could you share some of those things learnt through all this time building this interactive platform?

How are you doing to get a cross platform desktop app with web tech? (I guess you still use cljs for it)

I'm really curious, and I wonder myself why nobody asks this kind of questions

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It uses node-webkit as the host, which combines Chromium and node.js: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
From what I can tell it looks like it's using the Chromium Embedded Framework

http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/wiki/GeneralUsage

I am also really curious about these points and would like to hear what Chris has to say about them.
These are all things I plan to talk about in my next blog post :)