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PittleyDunkin11/21/20241 replyview on HN

Any plan for supporting native toolkit access ala react-native, or is the plan to just rely on web tech?


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c-smile11/22/2024

You can use my Sciter if you need native widgets.

Sciter is an HTML/CSS/JS engine with the ability to attach native widgets to DOM elements. So you'll benefit from two worlds: HTML/CSS layout richness and native widgets.

The major problem though is Linux family of OSes in this respect. I have version of Sciter that works directly on X11 or Wayland ( https://sciter.com/sciter-glx-generation-4/ ). Windows and MacOS have clear concept of child windows/widgets but no such things on X11 or Wayland realistically speaking.

So react-native is practically iOS/Android only thing.

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