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- Being a fresh C++ codebase, god knows what security vulnerabilities and stability issues it has.

- D3D 11 and metal required. Most likely huge compatibility/stability/rendering issues across different graphic cards and driver versions.

- Barrier to entry is one of the most important factors in a framework/library's success. You can't beat the Electron ecosystem where any idiot can make a cross platform app. This is really only useful for C++ developers.

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> You can't beat the Electron ecosystem where any idiot can make a cross platform app.

As an idiot, I can attest to this. I'm constantly looking for lighter weight alternatives, but nothing so far has been nearly as simple as Electron. Here's the list of options I maintain: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dTZIp6z2J1IL7YgBlHG_...

Qml.Net [0] (I'm the author) is a pretty simple way to make a cross platform app. I think it's worth checking out.

[0] https://github.com/pauldotknopf/Qml.Net

I should mention that my current favorite (still exploring) is Haxe/OpenFL

- The beta is definitely not rock-solid stable yet but reasonably runs a majority of major websites. The current branch of Ultralight is based off of a stable branch of Safari/WebKit.

- The Ultralight library itself has no dependencies on D3D11 or Metal. The renderer emits virtual GPU driver commands that are consumed by the user (see GPUDriver.h). We ship a few stock implementations of GPUDriver for major platforms but users can undoubtedly write their own.

Could this run on OpenGL ES? I know of a few projects running chromium on embedded devices... Something like this could be handy!

The OpenGL driver is almost complete, it shouldn't be too difficult to port to OpenGL ES. We're definitely interested in targeting embedded devices with this.

After that you need to take it full circle and get it to run on WebGL!

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