Hacker News Reader

Full thread

tiborsaas

If you throw out cross platform support it's hard to call it an alternative :)

View on HN

Yeah, at that point the most obvious alternative is Cocoa!

It’s pretty cross-platform, if you swap out “WKWebView” with “your platform’s native web view”.

Just use gtk WebKit or qt WebKit and you’re good to go.

For the record, WebKit originated from KDE[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

Should be QtWebEngine now, as QtWebKit is deprecated.

QtWebEngine embeds Chromium as its web engine, which means it is going to have the same performance and disk size costs as Electron. The circle is now complete and you might as well just use Electron.

Agreed except each app won't need a copy of QtWebEngine on disk.

Isn't qt webkit what the infamous pgAdmin 4 used to use? shivers

Reply on news.ycombinator.com