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BINGO! I tried to do this about ten years ago but getting the time synchronization to work reliably scuttled the project (that and the fact that my collaborator just vanished).

We went with Qt, CMake and modern C++ for https://ossia.io in 2013 knowing that it would be a long term effort for a linux/mac/windows desktop software aiming to do real-time audio, visuals and networking and so far this "classic" stack keeps on giving and allowing me to ship regular features and improvements, here's to the next ten years :) in the meantime I can't count how many techs and frameworks I've seen come and go but these are here to stay.

idk I do this in plain ol' C++ with Qt & CMake, every commit builds for mac, windows with msvc and mingw, linux, web, bsd... https://github.com/ossia/score?tab=readme-ov-file#build-stat...

QRhi is pretty much the exact same goal than pygfx with a different implementation: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/gui/rhi

I've been using it for 4-ish years now in https://ossia.io

Pros:

IDK, I mostly use KDE apps and none of those are electron. The only web-browser thing I have open right now is firefox, everything else is pretty lean Qt apps: strawberry (RES 77 megabytes), dolphin (RES 61 megabytes), konsole (RES between 30 and 60-megabytes depending on my instance) the app I'm developing https://ossia.io (lean enough to run on a raspberry pi zero 2).

Meanwhile, I have a dozen firefox processes each above 500M RES and a few above 1G...

I added LLVM JIT support to ossia a few years ago, it's not too bad, but a big issue is that the JIT does not support all the necessary features used by the frontend in terms of relocations, etc. So it happens relatively often that C++ code will compile to LLVM IR without issue, but then fail at the JIT step because some relocation is not supported by the JIT engine yet.

Most of the code is here : https://github.com/ossia/score/tree/master/src/plugins/score... with the actual LLVM API interoperation contained there : https://github.com/ossia/score/tree/master/src/plugins/score...

I'm curious, could you try this one and tell me if it starts ? so far it works in all the mainstream distros I could try but if there's someone out there who cannot open it with an OS less than a decade old, I want to make sure I can fix that : https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/download/v3.2.0/ossi...

That's really not true. Qt as of Qt 6 still supports using native X11 drawing commands and that covers a lot of apps. Tkinter too (and many technical apps which are exactly the ones likely to be used over the wire).

Just last week I was debugging remotely an art installation which uses my software, https://ossia.io and was running on a Pi 5, I compared X11 and VNC and X11 was really much more useable even over the internet.