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Show HN: MetalShell – Build GUIs for JVM Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- IloveHN84 7y agoThe point Is: how do you redistribute them to other platforms (ARM)? And what about Windows/Linux/MacOS compatibility?
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- struppi 7y agoAs-is, it would only work on platforms where java-cef (the chromium embedded framework) works. But one could probably add other HTML renderers too (Android, JavaFX WebView, ...).
- zubnix 7y agoHow is this different (functionally) than say https://www.dukescript.com/ https://www.dukescript.com/ ?
- struppi 7y agoI think the biggest difference is that I am using the chromium embedded framework (java-cef), so you get e.g. the chrome debugger for debugging your HTML/CSS/JavaScript. My goal was to use java-cef, but hide all the weirdness. Also, there's no pre-defined data binding, so a bit less opinionated in this case.
- duiker101 7y agoFor one, I guess, the price tag.
- gitgud 7y agoNice, I especially appreciate all the examples in the Readme. Would this be anymore performant than electron? Or smaller binary sizes? etc...
- struppi 7y agoThanks. More performant? Maybe - at least multithreading, fork/join, ... would be easier. Smaller binaries? No, probably even larger, since the chromium embedded framework (CEF) is biiig. But it would probably be possible to add other HTML renderers later (i.e. CEF during development b/c of the excellent debugging features, JavaFX WebView later). It would make most sense when you either need multi-threading or have existing Java libraries/code you want to re-use or have mostly Java developers...