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Makes me wish there was a cross-platform equivalent to HTML Applications [1]. They were hell to develop at the time, but being able to create single-text-file tools with a browser UI, file system and network access, and app automation via COM was amazing

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application



That would be neat. So instead of having to write a whole Electron or Tauri app and package it, you just target some shell program.

You could definitely build such a shell with Electron or Tauri, it punches a big hole in their security model, but you could do it.




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