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> There are some drawbacks such as Windows edition is based on IE etc.

This alone is a major reason to use Carlo[1] instead, which is arguably more secure (by virtue of not using IE) and produces even more lightweight bundles than NeutralinoJS.

1. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo



> There are some drawbacks such as Windows edition is based on IE etc.

Well that's kind of a non-starter. Part of the appeal with shipping an entire browser in an Electron app is to give yourself a fixed target.

It always seems that these "Electron killers" all have some fatal flaw, be it "just use whatever the system browser is" or "just as good as Electron, if you don't care about file drag-and-drop, system clipboard integration, full CSS support, minor things like that"[1].

1: https://github.com/ultralight-ux/Ultralight/issues/178


Carlo is essentially what top commenter derefr is asking for.

That said, it is unmaintained and I don't expect that to change.



Is Carlo maintained? The last commit in master was eight months ago.


It's not.

(I was part of the team that launched it.)




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