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Comment by mbirth | Hacker News Reader

"desktop client" is a bit of a stretch for this 100+ MB "website in a headless browser" Electron app.

Its really a bad issue we have here with us. Electron apps are piling up like crazy. Every arch update was like 1+ gb for me. I shifted to all terminal, all web as of now.

I am waiting for https://sciter.com to go open source in the upcoming months. We can sigh in relief. Also, why aren't more apps created using https://github.com/webview/webview instead of electron. Windows support is not that bad you know.

Webview looks like an interesting project. I feel lost people's complaints with Electron apps from from memory usage / JavaScript performance though, which it doesn't look like it would improve significantly.

Webview is okay for most apps to be honest. Performance isn't that snappy, but for many apps like Markdown readers and stuff, its great. Now I do support Electron that push web technologies to the limit. e.g. Signal, Skype, VS Code etc.

Wait, sciter is going open source?? I thought the kickstarter to make it happen didn't reach the funding goal, so they weren't going to do it?

I am not very sure a single man can fight against Google/Apple/Mozilla/Microsoft(Github) etc who use and develop Chromium based softwares. He has to take the help of community otherwise the project is dead.

I think c-smile has got the thing late TBH. Going open source before Electron (at least on Linux) would have given him a lot of leverage over Electron. But its ultimately his product, his life.

Not wrong since they have this in the Github:

> It is released as a browser webapp and also packaged as an cross-platform desktop application (Mac, Windows, and Linux).

and they provide a docker image for hosting it easily, which is how I plan to use it for myself.

regardless of implementation, it is still a desktop client

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