What does HackerNews think of wails?

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I have built Web front-ends (React or Svelte) with Go-backend. Embed in a web-view to make it a native desktop app, or get funky and give it native chrome/menus etc. [Wails](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) is a good candidate to start if you want to cut on boiler plate.
If Rust is too much of an adventure, maybe you'll find Go easier. Wails [1] is great if perhaps a bit more rough round the edges. Because it's go, package sizes are 10mb+ but nothing like Electron 30mb+

1. https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

There are some technologies like this. I'm going to look into Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
Thank your for your reply!

> I'm a web dev, so I'm not comply to web spec but chasing it, as a web dev, I'm happy about this, so I take the web spec as granted.

Okay, now I see: As a web dev you are able to make use of all these new features. I do not know about current conveniences. FWIW is that CSS should be portable across any browser/web view. And given that browsers nowadays occupy tons of memory (even though they are written in highly performant languages) I am still impressed by sciters small shipping size.

> If I'm building a app biz company, I may choose sciter. sciter is not "free" to use, I remember sciter used to tring allowed the static linking if the donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails .

Thank you for the recommendation!! It appears to me that his previous attempts to market his product have left a serious impression. I do remember stumbling about sciter a while ago, neglecting it as well. But I can't recall my reasoning.

> BTW, I'm sorry for the small app part, small should mean adapt or bend to sciter.

No worries, thanks for your input!!