muon
Ultralight
muon | Ultralight | |
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7 | 53 | |
2,828 | 4,597 | |
- | 0.3% | |
0.0 | 2.9 | |
about 1 year ago | 12 days ago | |
C | CMake | |
MIT License | - |
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muon
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Muon: GPU Based Electron on a Diet
I do care, and in your example, it depends on what license the project uses and how "proprietary_library" is distributed.
In this specific case, Muon cannot be GPL'ed, for example, because it distributes a copy of Ultralight [1] and Ultralight has a proprietary (incompatible) license [2]. For a license like MIT or BSD, I think applying that license is technically valid, bug again, not very practical. I doubt Muon would make it into the OpenBSD repos, for example. Its distribution is hindered by the depedency.
[1] https://github.com/ImVexed/muon/tree/master/ultralight
[2] https://github.com/ultralight-ux/Ultralight/blob/master/lice...
- Muon - GPU Based Electron on a Diet
Ultralight
- Ultralight: Display Web-Content Everywhere
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
[2] https://ultralig.ht/
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
Web rendering would be Blink, with V8 being the JavaScript engine. I believe they have their own UI rendering process.
I know of another company that does something similar for the UI process, but with WebKit instead as the base:
https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight#rocket-dual-high...
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Ode to the M1
What I'd really like to see with CEF et al, is JS being dropped, in favor of directly controlling the DOM from the host language. Then we could, for example, write a Rust (or Kotlin, Zig, Haskell, etc) desktop application that simply directly manipulated the DOM, and had it rendered by a HTML+CSS layout engine. Folks could then write a React-like framework for that language (to help render & re-render the DOM in an elegant way).
Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/) looks pretty cool. I think another possible option is Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo) – it was abandoned by Mozilla along with Rust during their layoffs a while back (but the project still seems to have a decent bit of activity). It would be great if some group of devs could revive the project, or a company could fund such a revival.
Eventually, we'll need to reflect on, and explore whether HTML+CSS is really the best way to do layout, and we could maybe perhaps consider proting the Android/iOS layout approach over to desktop.
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Anselm's Jazz Distributed Infrastructure Framework
I'm curious if the project will be open-source or do you have plans to go the Awesomium/Ultralight route with both open/closed sources and volume licenses? Or do you plan to offer commercial support services like other open source software?
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Best cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) desktop frameworks?
I’m not tied to any language, but it needs to be able to wrap a c++ library. I started with .NET 7 MAUI - no linux support & very mobile focused. Tried out Electron. Wins on ease and usability, but has massive overhead. (Basic “Hello world” executable compiled to over 200mb) I then discovered Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/). Big win on size, but was last updated 3 years ago.
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Remember when this was 0% and 70 mb? This is comical.
tauri exists or if you wanted to ultralig.ht
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
I agree web stuff is really the best way to develop UIs. Good luck making responsive stuff in C++ for example. The paradigm of HTML, CSS, and JS is extremely powerful and even allows you to use canvas, webgpu, wasm.
There are multiple commercial projects that use web dev paradigm for GUIs:
https://coherent-labs.com/
https://ultralig.ht/
https://sciter.com/
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what do you think about alternative browser engines?
Nice review, thanks! There are also: Ultralight (based on Webkit), LiteHTML, Tkhtml3 and Lobo Evolution. See also timeline of web engines.
What are some alternatives?
libsamplerate - An audio Sample Rate Conversion library
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
cmake-cookbook - CMake Cookbook recipes.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
AppInitHook - Global user-mode hooking framework, based on AppInit_DLLs. The goal is to allow you to rapidly develop hooks to inject in an arbitrary process.
qt-ultralight-browser - Ultra-lightweight web browser based on Qt Ultralight webview, powered by Ultralight HTML renderer
lfbb - A Lock Free Bipartite Buffer Library written in standard C11
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
app_timer - Friendly, lightweight, hardware-agnostic timer abstraction layer in C. Use a single timer/counter source to drive many timed events.
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
Unity Test API - Simple Unit Testing for C
litehtml - Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine