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0 pointsd--b7y ago0 comments

The problem with electron is that every electron app is shipping with chromium, which means a lot of resources are being duplicated.

A way to solve this is to make the JavaScript/html layer part of the OS, so that electron apps would ship as thin layers on top of a the system’s engine (The same way that java applications are thin layers on top of Java’s virtual machine).

Apparently, the way Edge is built doesn’t allow for replacing chromium in electron apps. So they need their own version of chromium instead.

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addicted7y ago

It’s probably less about the way Edge is built and more about the fact that Electron is explicitly developed and designed to work on Chromium.

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addicted7y ago

It’s probably less about the way Edge is built and more about the fact that Electron is explicitly developed and designed to work on Chromium.

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