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JeanMarcS on Sept 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web apps are better than no apps

> I'm honestly surprised the Chromium team hasn't already addressed this with the Electron team somehow by now

Well, a solution might be to share the chromium "vm" across all electron app, but maintaining compatibility will be horribly difficult so, no I guess.

easton on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

Microsoft has this on Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

Teams 2 is supposed to use it (and there's a couple smaller system apps that use it).

endisneigh on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

you solve it the same way you do with iOS and Android - an LTS release with careful deprecation of APIs.

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