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At what point do we get an Electron runtime that can be distributed (and kept up-to-date) separately from the apps using Electron?

.NET does this, Java does this, DirectX does this, etc.

Run a webserver on localhost that only accepts local connections (most golang utilities with GUIs do this) or use a sain UI framework.

I have wondered this for some time. Why is making a common runtime for Electron so difficult?