Electron is a widely hated framework on Linux, but what about the alternatives like Neutralinojs?

In their own words: In Electron and NWjs, you have to install Node.js and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node.js make simple apps bloaty — in most scenarios, framework weights more than your app source. Neutralinojs offers a lightweight and portable SDK which is an alternative for Electron and NW.js. Neutralinojs doesn’t bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux). Neutralinojs implements a secure WebSocket connection for native operations and embeds a static web server to serve the web content. Also, it offers a built-in JavaScript client library for developers.

Do you experience alternatives like Njs to blend more in the desktop layout, install less junk, use less memory, are more compatible with Wayland,…?

  • @Aux
    -2•6 months ago

    Past few years is the first time I’ve seen FOSS devs picking up VScode to use it at all

    VSC was released in 2015, it became #13 most used code editor in 2016 and #1 in 2017. That’s a bit more than a few years IMHO.

    Never known anyone to use MSDN as a definitive resource anything

    MSDN was the main source of info for web development as it had the most comprehensive knowledge library for HTML, CSS and JS. It still has great C/C++ docs.

    I won’t even go into the mess that MS’s activities had on the open web in general.

    SVG is based on MS proposals. Microsoft was instrumental in development of CSS and IE3 was the very first browser to feature CSS support. The second ECMAScript implementation called JScript also came from Microsoft (the first one called JavaScript came from Netscape, which pushed ECMAScript standard). Microsoft has invented loads of tech like XMLHttpRequest, etc. One must be totally ignorant to think that Microsoft did not invest heavily into web standards.

    And then you conveniently forgetting about tools like TS, RX, etc which are used worldwide for decades. Microsoft was also instrumental in bringing the very first open computer architecture (together with IBM) - PC. Your whole IT experience is enabled by Microsoft.

    • @just_another_person
      2•6 months ago

      No, nobody is forgetting the historical contributions of MS as an entity, but the majority was that was decades ago, and not the context of what was being discussed 🤣

      • @Aux
        -2•6 months ago

        Well, I guess you’re having issues following the context then…