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Photino: A lighter Electron


Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.

Photino.Native is a C++ (and Objective-C) wrapper around the OS’s built-in Chromium or WebKit-based browser control in it. On Windows it uses the Chromium Edge based WebView2 control, on macOS it uses Safari’s WKWebView and on Linux it uses WebKitGTK+ 2. While we’re concentrating on using Photino with .NET, it could be used to build Web UIs for desktop applications written in any language, like C++, Go, Rust, Java, Objective-C and others!

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