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The only one missing now is Electron and we'll have a real battle :)

Besides shipping vulns, what category is Electron beating the rest in? Genuinely curious.

I'm in no way a fan of Electron and much rather use Tauri. But if you want something proven, wildly deployed and with the biggest community/potential support, then probably Electron is the best currently, just because of how old it is.

People say this about using Apache as a webserver; I understand it, but don't know if I agree with it.

I'm not particularly risk-averse myself either, so I don't agree with it either. But I do know some are, so those seems to be the arguments in favor of Electron from that perspective.

Just a personal anecdote, I work in an industry that is extremely risk averse. I still use 300 baud modems every day. Apache is new-fangled nonsense.

300 baud modems? Over analog lines, VoIP, HF radio or what elese? Supposing it was not just an ironic answer, I would be pleased to know more about this!

I'm running Apache for all my services and it's totally fine. It does everything I need and since I'm not running Fortune 500 websites or anything performance is more than enough. If it works, I don't need with it.

On the other hand, this isn't some web page you distribute everywhere an hope it's compatible. Those engines are self-contained, so if your application works, it works.

That’s correct for Sciter, but Tauri uses the OS’ browser engine, so you’re back to the hostile environment / unknown territory of the web.

Electron is irreplaceable if

- you want to cut the dev cost on support all platform - maybe MOST important

- you want Browser like feature - embed webview not iframe

- you want to make sure the feature is there, if you can not polyfill

Memory is cheap, download size is cheap.

See the sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765784

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