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sciter-js-sdk
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GameScripter.JS — write games in JS, compile to tiny executable
How tiny is the output? What is the API? (I couldn't find any documentation. I thought maybe it's in the Help menu in the app itself but all I found was this https://i.imgur.com/6puOMIe.png - On that note, what level of JS is supported? As far as I can tell it uses this https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk which is based on Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS ) Is there sound?
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Ultralight VS sciter-js-sdk - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 4 Apr 2022
- Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?
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Zig Build System Internals
Having normal procedural language for build automation is of course useful. That's for those 10% of cases when "standard" build DSL (make,CMake,etc.) simply do not have facilities.
But the rest of 90% tasks should have compact (easily readable) definitions.
I personally found that Premake5 has quite good balance for these tasks.
Premake files are plain .lua files and due to Lua syntax they are easily readable. And if needed you can call from them procedures defined in again Lua.
So typical project (multiplatform) definition looks pretty readable, for example one project from Sciter SDK:
https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/premake5....
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Alternatives for realtime offline-first JavaScript applications
More details.
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App Localization in Flutter
That's why in Sciter I've extended JSX with translation meta instruction @:
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Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
Note Tauri is full fledged Client/Server with WebView (client) is running in separate process with RPC between UI process and Rust code (Server).
For the comparison:
Standalone Sciter (scapp.exe, https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/bin) takes ~8 MB of RAM (with minimal Cairo and GDI backends).
That's 20 times less than even Tauri.
WebView based solutions are not suitable for applets - small portable desktop applications.
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Dioxus v0.1 - a new Rust GUI toolkit for Web, Desktop, Mobile, SSR, TUI that emphasizes developer experience [WebView-based rendering]
scapp.exe ( Standalone sciter engine ) takes 45 Mb showing its default "about" document.
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
Check this example of native object: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/demos/int...
So you really don't need V8 JIT infrastructure to achieve max performance - just add native objects when needed.
firejail
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Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
Firejail is cool: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
Linux namespaces/cgroups but nowhere near as heavy as Docker.
I use it when I want to limit the memory of a Python script:
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Toolship: A (More) Secure Workstation
Firejail can also be a useful option, though no good if you're on Mac https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Uses the same Linux primitives as docker etc, but can be a bit more ergonomic for this use case
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Bubblewrap – Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak
Wonderful little tool, too bad you must chain various exec calling tools to get cgroups (a bit akin to `ionice ... nice ... cmd`) and Linux users namespaces can't allow UNIX sockets while preventing network access (I think?).
Migrated from Firejail when its complexity annoyed me too much and I hit https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3001 (Firejail doesn't like parens or brackets in --put/--get parameters) to a badly NIH version using bwrap and bash to have "profiles":
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Firejail: Light, featureful and zero-dependency security sandbox for Linux
Firejail, Flatpak (which uses Bubblewrap under the hood), and Snap (which uses AppArmor) all use the same underlying technology: Linux namespaces.
This question comes up a lot, and has been answered here: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/wiki/Frequently-Asked-...
TL;DR: Firejail has much more comprehensive features than Flatpak (Bubblewrap). Firejail also has more comprehensive network support, support for AppArmor and SELinux, and easier seccomp filtering.
Compared to Snap (which uses AppArmor), Firejail is compatible with AppArmor and again goes above and beyond with a lot of additional features.
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Do, or do not. There is no try
Firejail does this. The profile database is the two "profile" directories in https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/tree/master/etc
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Strange times make for strange friends...
What do you mean by a Firefox container? Do you mean FireJail?
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Am I better off running a GNU/Linux distro over ChromeOS? If so, why?
Apps in ChromeOS are sandboxed regardless. Over at Linux we're trying to achieve 'bandaid-solutions' using tools like bubblewrap and (albeit to a lesser degree) firejail. Note that the term 'bandaid-solutions' was not meant derogatory, I think both bubblewrap and firejail are amazing utilities. However, their best efforts can only do so much in an environment in which privileged access is the norm, rather than the exception. So to be more elaborate, apps on Linux (by default) can basically do whatever they want. By contrast, ChromeOS has been built from the ground up (as previously mentioned) to sandbox apps regardless.
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How do I go about packaging niche Windows games into dedicated flatpaks?
The simpler one is to take a look at firejail
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Is there any way to isolate a Wine prefix from the internet, to prevent the programs inside of it from making connections?
Try running your Wine app through something like Firejail.
What are some alternatives?
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
bubblejail - Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications
Flatseal - Manage Flatpak permissions
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
opensnitch - OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
namespaced-openvpn - Wrapper for OpenVPN on Linux solving various privacy issues
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
vue-native-core - Vue Native is a framework to build cross platform native mobile apps using JavaScript
firewalld - Stateful zone based firewall daemon with D-Bus interface