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Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

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323 points CharlesW | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source
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niutech ◴[21 Nov 24 14:32 UTC] No.42204648[source]▶
So is it a yet another webview-based framework like NeutralinoJS (https://neutralino.js.org), Electrino (https://github.com/pojala/electrino) or DeskGap (https://deskgap.com)? What's their advantage apart from using Bun instead of Node?

For relly lightweight cross-platform desktop apps better use a non-webview-based native framework like Qt, GTK, wxWidgets or even recently released FLTK 1.4.

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1. rubymamis ◴[21 Nov 24 15:44 UTC] No.42205465[source]▶
Couldn't agree more, QML with C++ for the logic (or Rust or whatever other bindings you want to use), is the best imo.
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2. Tmpod ◴[22 Nov 24 14:42 UTC] No.42214196[source]▶
If you want to use Rust, Slint[0] may be something to consider, seeing as the existing bindings for Qt and QML are not very pleasing to use (mostly talking about qmetaobject-rs and cxx-qt). If I'm not mistaken, Slint is developed by ex-QML people.

[0]: https://slint.dev