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		jrockway on May 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero My next app will be C++/Qt compiled to Javascript with Emscripten and then run inside Electron. (Incidentally, someone made a Dear Imgui demo this way: https://jnmaloney.github.io/WebGui/imgui.html, minus involving Electron, of course.)

no_time on May 15, 2022 [–]

That's like... the worst of both worlds? You get a worse dev experience compared to regular js and your users get a memory hog that makes their machines go whirrrr instead of a snappy, lightweight Qt program.

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