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0 pointsGalanwe4y ago0 comments

How is it different than using a GUI framework like Qt or GTK?

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ylyn4y ago

Qt and GTK apps don't usually spawn 5 processes, 300-400 MB of RAM, and take 100+ MB of disk space (because they always ship an entire copy of Electron) just to show a small window.

GalanweOP4y ago

Then it's not electron the problem, it's the way the package was created. There is no reason it couldn't be distributed as a shared library.

seanw4444y ago

Are we really comparing the bloat of Chromium to Qt & GTK?

gspr4y ago

They solve the task at hand (cross-platform GUIs), plus some auxiliary tasks like cross-platform FS access etc etc. That's much cleaner and more principled than "screw it, let's ship a browser".

samarthr14y ago

The runtime is much much smaller, fewer layers of.abstractions away?

otabdeveloper44y ago

If each app bundled its own build of Qt then it wouldn't be.

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