Ultralight
Dev tools
embeddable html ui renderer
SHOW HN2018
527points
170comments
#27of 2,155 in 2018
Top 2%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
10 positive, 43 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 12 critical, out of 68 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 7 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Smaller than Electron/CEF, useful for embedding
From 2 comments
I would really like to replace Electron. It's way too heavy for the types of things we want to use it for. But two things make it extremely valuable: 1. Ability to render css and…
tfha on HNThis is pretty cool. If you told me 20 years ago that the future of UI rendering would be GPU-accelerated HTML... I would have laughed. Heartily.
jpm_sd on HN
Objections
Proprietary, source closed apart from WebCore
From 3 comments
This is proprietary, so it's a non-starter.
Sir_Cmpwn on HNA few questions - What does it do to be better (smaller, more memory-efficient) than a browser engine? Which features does one lose? - When will Linux support ship? (Edit: I see…
solarkraft on HNHi I'm Andrew McWatters, I author lcef, LuaJIT FFI bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework at https://github.com/Planimeter/lcef. I also work on Planimeter's Grid Engine, the…
andrewmcwatters on HN
Too similar to Awesomium, which had licensing and update issues
From 1 comment
Hi I'm Andrew McWatters, I author lcef, LuaJIT FFI bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework at https://github.com/Planimeter/lcef. I also work on Planimeter's Grid Engine, the…
andrewmcwatters on HN
Requests
Open source the full project
From 2 comments
A few questions - What does it do to be better (smaller, more memory-efficient) than a browser engine? Which features does one lose? - When will Linux support ship? (Edit: I see…
solarkraft on HNHi, I was a former Awesomium user (.NET bindings) and i think you did a good job, then told everyone to wait for the next version (2 years?) and.. there comes Ultralight which is…
tabulatouch on HN
Linux support
From 2 comments
A few questions - What does it do to be better (smaller, more memory-efficient) than a browser engine? Which features does one lose? - When will Linux support ship? (Edit: I see…
solarkraft on HNHi there: Pros (Ultralight is...) - Smaller distributable (25% the size of Electron/CEF or smaller). - Simpler and easier to build (fewer dependencies and smaller codebase). -…
adamjs on HN
Documentation
From 2 comments
Is there any documentation here? How does styling work? Is there DOM manipulation? How is this useful at all?
aphextron on HNWhat does "The new standard in UI." mean? As far as I know it's not really a standard until either many people are using it and/or it's ratified as a standard of some kind. Or is…
barkingcat on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Sciter, libRocket and EAWebKit
From 2 comments
What is the advantage of this compare to Sciter [1], which on the surface is very similar and lighter. [1] https://sciter.com
ksec on HNHi I'm Andrew McWatters, I author lcef, LuaJIT FFI bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework at https://github.com/Planimeter/lcef. I also work on Planimeter's Grid Engine, the…
andrewmcwatters on HN
Memory usage compared with Chrome
From 1 comment
This looks like a useful framework. To the creator: Could you help me understand how lightweight this is, in terms of memory usage? For instance, how much memory is used to…
disqard on HN
Alternatives named
Electron
From 2 comments
Now someone please explain why this isn't the electron-killer to save us all.
lx3459683 on HNI would really like to replace Electron. It's way too heavy for the types of things we want to use it for. But two things make it extremely valuable: 1. Ability to render css and…
tfha on HN
CEF
From 2 comments
Hi, I was a former Awesomium user (.NET bindings) and i think you did a good job, then told everyone to wait for the next version (2 years?) and.. there comes Ultralight which is…
tabulatouch on HNHi I'm Andrew McWatters, I author lcef, LuaJIT FFI bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework at https://github.com/Planimeter/lcef. I also work on Planimeter's Grid Engine, the…
andrewmcwatters on HN
Sciter
From 1 comment
What is the advantage of this compare to Sciter [1], which on the surface is very similar and lighter. [1] https://sciter.com
ksec on HN
libRocket
From 1 comment
Hi I'm Andrew McWatters, I author lcef, LuaJIT FFI bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework at https://github.com/Planimeter/lcef. I also work on Planimeter's Grid Engine, the…
andrewmcwatters on HN
EAWebKit
From 1 comment
Hi I'm Andrew McWatters, I author lcef, LuaJIT FFI bindings for Chromium Embedded Framework at https://github.com/Planimeter/lcef. I also work on Planimeter's Grid Engine, the…
andrewmcwatters on HN