Sciter
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Sciter[1] has been around for a while and ships much smaller executables.”
“it gives me the performance and speed while also being multiplatform”
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“I really like the premise of an electron alternative that compiles to a 5MB binary”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“In Sciter I have three editing behaviors”
“I think that my Sciter is better option when you need HTML/CSS/JS native application”
“1...4 is how it is implemented in my Sciter as the Reactor thing”
“Essentially there is no so significant difference with any other SwiftUI/TextKit solution.”
“That's why I've added Graphics.Text (https://docs.sciter.com/docs/Graphics/Text) in Sciter.”
Threads where it came up
- Deno Desktop 3 mentions
- Fine, I'll build my own text editor 1 mention
- Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript? 1 mention
- SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity 1 mention
- Does Anybody Actually Like React? 1 mention
- Native all the way, until you need text 1 mention
Data: sciter.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“Sciter[1] has been around for a while and ships much smaller executables.”
“it gives me the performance and speed while also being multiplatform”
“That's Sciter (https://sciter.com)”
“That's what Sciter does”
“I really like the premise of an electron alternative that compiles to a 5MB binary”
“There are even more lightweight alternatives for Electron than Tauri: NodeGui, Neutralino.js, Sciter, DeskGap and more”