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  1. webusb

    Connecting hardware to the web.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. standards-positions

    WebKit's positions on emerging web specifications (by WebKit)

  4. web-nfc

    Web NFC

  5. standards-positions

  6. quickjs

    Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.

    And some lightweight alternatives like Bellard's QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/) in C and Kiesel (https://kiesel.dev/) in Zig.

  7. web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

    An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.

    I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.

    Wails does that: https://wails.io/

    Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/

    That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

    Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).

  8. tauri

    Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

    I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.

    Wails does that: https://wails.io/

    Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/

    That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

    Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.

    Wails does that: https://wails.io/

    Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/

    That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

    Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).

  11. kumo

    Wayland Mobile Web Browser

    Someone is doing that: https://github.com/catacombing/kumo/tree/servo

  12. sciter

    Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

    > I'm convinced that using an embedded browser engine to render app UI is the future.

    Sciter exists: https://sciter.com/

    And it indeed is great for UI.

  13. figuro

    UI Library in pure Nim! [WIP]

    I’ve been working on a native UI project I call Figuro for a couple of years now (1) that’s built on the idea of simple nodes.

    It’s surprising how similar to HTML it’s becoming. Lately I’m working on adding a subset of CSS.

    1: https://github.com/elcritch/figuro

  14. cefglue

    Fork of https://gitlab.com/xiliumhq/chromiumembedded/cefglue

  15. ore-ui

    💎 Building blocks to construct game UIs using web tech.

    Minecraft Bedrock uses React + a "web-like platform" (I assume this means they've just implemented the bits they needed) for their UI: https://github.com/Mojang/ore-ui

  16. Avalonia

    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

    That's why I mentioned https://avaloniaui.net/ which does the part. WPF is not bad compared to everything happening in the web frameworks.

  17. llrt

    LLRT (Low Latency Runtime) is an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.

    AWS' LLRT runtime just switched to QuickJS-NG [0]

    0. https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669

  18. Uno Platform

    Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly. Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!

  19. daino-notes-public

    Write beautifully. Effortlessly. A note-taking app written in Qt C++ and QML.

  20. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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