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0 points4111111111111114y ago0 comments

> The biggest drawback is that it only supports a subset of Web APIs, even the DOM APIs

Even bigger drawback is that it ain't Free, honestly. Sure, the licence allows you to use it if the users install the sciter runtime separately, but that ain't really am option beyond development imo.

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simplify4y ago· 4 in thread

How many great projects will never be, from the common dev's expectation of free?

galaxyLogic4y ago

I think there is an oversized focus on everything being free. It started with Google being free but it really isn't since you have to view adds and get distracted.

Also think about a software tool that costs say $100. It ain't free but that's your hourly salary Mr. Professional Developer. Using only free tools is penny-wise and pound foolish.

feanaro4y ago

I think paying once for a tool is outstanding and I fully support it. Prices can even be a lot higher, from my point of view.

The trouble is that everyone wants to be a landlord these days by charging rent instead of allowing you to buy a copy of the software.

ptato4y ago

No, my hourly salary is 1/10 of that. I would still pay for the license for Sciter if I had a use for it right now, but it isn't a trivial cost.

b3morales4y ago

Agreed; don't pick the free-as-in-beer tool solely because of that. However, some of the free-as-in-beer tools are the best. And those you should donate to (if they accept it). :)

wongarsu4y ago· 2 in thread

Dynamic linking is allowed and you are allowed to ship those, so on Windows it's very painless. You just ship your Go/C#/Python/Rust binary with a sciter.dll that sits in the same folder. On Linux it's not quite as nice since you have to move the libsciter.so to the appropriate folder.

Of course static linking would be nicer, but I think it's fair to charge money for that (as well as for source code access). The project has to finance itself somehow.

pritambaral4y ago

> On Linux it's not quite as nice since you have to move the libsciter.so to the appropriate folder.

Incorrect. Linux doesn't care where you load a .so from. You could load it by using a path, or you could add a path to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var. You could even add it to your compiled binary's RPATH. All methods support relative paths. The latter requires a binary, but the first two work with nearly all scripting languages.

pessimizer4y ago

None of those options are any easier than moving it. No harder, but no easier.

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remram4y ago

I see, the SDK is BSD but the runtime is freeware.

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