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Has anyone tried Cobalt? It looks like something based on it could be an alternative to Electron.

It's meant for embedded but that probably just means it's easy to build and uses low memory.

A high-performance, small-footprint platform that implements a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS to run applications, including the YouTube TV app.

Cobalt lags on modern web APIs pretty badly. I wouldn't recommend it.

Can you elaborate on that?

To be clear I wasn't suggesting that Cobalt is a replacement for Electron. Electronic has a lot of its own APIs too.

Rather, I wonder if Cobalt could be better than Servo along some dimensions as an engine for something like Electron.