Vuido

There is a movement to use the same tech on desktop as you would on the web, but is anything moving in the opposite direction? Will there be a web version of QT or something?…

Link to repo: https://github.com/mimecorg/vuido I’m glad this exists, I didn’t want to setup a whole React thing.

awesome. this is clearly an early proof-of-concept but I'll keep my eye on the project. I'm also hopeful for weex (like react native for vue). despite moving from alibaba to…

I think the coolest thing about this is that it's using libui [1], so whether you're trying to work on Proton Native, or Vuido, or any other flavor of NodeJS-to-Native-GUI [2],…

I'm currently developing a web app and while my nw.js/electron version is around 50 MB and uses 200+ MB of memory, loading it in Firefox it's a 600kB bundle, fully renders in…

unfortunately being based on libui it is limited to barely be usable. libui does not even have a listbox.

One question: why would you use the awful clusterfuck that is JavaScript on the desktop where you’ve got the freedom to choose from dozens of lovely languages that actually are a…

But don’t you believe in using the right tool for the job? JavaScript is barely acceptable on the web, but again it’s a necessary evil as you can’t easily use anything else. But…

Confirm me if I'm wrong, but didn't you just invent GTK?

> Vuido aims to be what Qt used to be, before it became almost as bloated as Electron, Really?!? I had to laugh at this one.

There is a movement to use the same tech on desktop as you would on the web, but is anything moving in the opposite direction? Will there be a web version of QT or something?…

Why don’t I see more “native” applications just running through a locally hosted web server? It’s the best of both worlds: file system access with your server, and a great…

What would be the disadvantages of just using a custom build of firefox for apps that bundles non-sandboxed libraries as needed? So for example, firefox.exe could actually be…

I feel like there's room for an Electron variant that's just "less electron". As in, I don't need all of Chrome to do my thing; just the HTML rendering engine and JavaScript…

So to me, the issue with Electron is that I'm already running Chrome, so I should be able to take advantage of that. In particular, if I have N electron apps, I want 1 Chrome…

Interesting, this reminds me of Proton Native. Both are based on libui. Proton discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978901 libui: https://github.com/andlabs/libui

awesome. this is clearly an early proof-of-concept but I'll keep my eye on the project. I'm also hopeful for weex (like react native for vue). despite moving from alibaba to…

There is also just JavaScript in Qt which is more mature and probably similarly - if not better - performing. https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qdeclarativejavascript.html

Xamarin.Forms and Avalonia.