Hey Mark / Simon, > <snip /> >> Third, we have Electron, which is the HTML5 app framework used by world >> class app developers. Skype, Spotify and a ton of GREAT apps on Ubuntu >> are Electron apps. > I respectfully disagree that this is the correct approach for a system > installer. With all due respect to these very popular applications, > Electron uses quite a bit of system resources and could be interesting > to get working correctly. If you are absolutely certain that this is the > way to go, I won't argue this point too much, but I believe that you > would have triple the speed (and/or it would use a third of the memory) > by writing a native application rather than an Electron one, and with > proper testing and organization (perhaps by using a compiled language > rather than an interpreted one, etc.), it would be a very welcome speed > jump over the current Ubiquity codebase. As a potential alternative to Electron for cross platform webapps built on web technologies, it might be worth looking into webview (https://github.com/zserge/webview) as an alternative. From some of the things I've been seeing around the web it gives reasonable compatibility with Electron without adding the entire Chromium engine to each application; rather, it uses built in web rendering engines wherever possible.
Chris MacNaughton chris.macnaugh...@canonical.com
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