Hacker News Reader

Almost all of the major WebView implementations I can think of are open source:

• WKWebView (iOS, macOS): https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/main/Source/WebKit/UIP...

• Android WebView: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

• Mozilla GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/mobile/andr...

• Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF): https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/

The main ones that aren't open source are the Windows WebView and WebView2 components.

WKWebView is open source but apple can always decide to change APIs and break apps. Happened before with their tracking prevention.

I would imagine many of the controlling maintainers are GitHub/Microsoft employees. GitHub created it. Microsoft owns GitHub and has important software built upon Electron.

sounds more like for maintainers from tauri. deno/rust/websymboly capacitorjs PWA group seems got the stuff right in this webview directions than monolitic electron. If we must go the chrome route, then NWJS would also be more preferred than Electron.