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> Pi is without contest the best harness. Because it’s yours

You can do this with any harness. I really dislike the Node.js ecosystem and avoid Pi and the like. I started with another one written in Go that has all the basics and I can extend it in minutes for anything I need while keeping track of upstream.

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Pi can run on Bun. I use it within ThinkRail which is an electronBun app! Pretty good speed and low enough memory usage. Highly recommended.

bun is just an alternative runner for the node ecosystem

I know but ElectronBun installs as a normal binary , you don’t need to install Node or Bun.

...it just bundles bun + the source files, it's no different from running a global bun binary.

What's your point? You avoid the node ecosystem even when you have no contact with it at all by running a binary? I couldn't care less what my binaries use as long as they are safe, have low footprint and are performant.

Except it’s not? Local bundled static electron and node is neither performant or safe…

BunElectron feels very performant. But I guess you don’t really want to know.

which one uses Go?

I recently found Zot. It’s basically a younger Pi written in Golang and distributed as a single Go binary. The author is very fast with fixing bugs and it has grown to a state where I use it for most things now!

https://www.zot.sh/

Another one written in Go is Crush

Ugh. They need to change that name. There already is a project called Zot.

https://github.com/project-zot/zot.git

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