Muon – A Light(er)weight GPU Based Electron Alternative Using Ultralight and Go (opens in new tab)

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10 points2StepsOutOfLine6y ago3 comments

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pier256y ago· 1 in thread

42MB is still a lot.

We went from an Electron app on macOS to a Swift app with WKWebView and it weights 4.2MB. Not a hello world, the complete production app on the Mac App Store.

Although I imagine the performance would be better with Ultralight since it's an optimized version of WebKit.

pier256y ago

So I asked in the Ultralight Slack and they told me the JS performance is the same with WKWebView. The rendering perf is about the same but they expect it to be better in the future.

hayd6y ago

Shame about the licensing of ultralight, it makes it a tough sell (unknown pricing) for commercial use.

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