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What's your experience with Electron alternatives (lemmy.ml)

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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,...?

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[–] nyan 4 points 8 months ago

Sometimes raising the barrier to entry is a good thing.

Many Electron applications I've run across don't make even a try at loading system settings. For me, that causes accessibility issues related to photosensitivity. For some reason, feeling like I've been stabbed in the eyeball when I try to open a program does not endear me to it or its framework.

No application at all is actually better than something built on Electron, as far as I'm concerned, because then there's a chance that someone, somewhere, might fill in the gap with software I can actually use.

Electron needs to either actually provide the basics of native functionality, or go away.