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My question is why Electron isn't a shared OS level thing.

It seems like Chrome OS really had the right idea. Can't we have some cross platform app format that's just a ZIP file full of HTML, with some APIs that go beyond normal web features?

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Windows 10 apps can be written in javascript, have access to all system APIs and can be rendered in system webview based on chromium, but developers are still too lazy to learn it and use it

Now we just need Linux and Android to do the same, because that's amazing.

Ionic/capacitor/cordova apps are all using the same shared webview instance, electron problem is a sad idiosyncrasie. In fact Ionic apps are smaller than native/flutter apps.

They're not too lazy to learn it. They want something that doesn't only work on Windows 10.

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