lorca vs webview vs electron

[pjebs]

I was wondering how this project differed from your webview and also electron.

Perhaps you can have a table on the README

[pjebs]

Based on readme, the webview project seems to be better in every way. Am I misunderstanding something?

[ww9]

I'd say lorca offers better trade-offs in general.

Lorca doesn't require cgo and makes communication between go and js simpler.

[zserge]

• Electron = Node.js + Chromium: heavy, large binaries, but same modern browser engine, fully controllable.
• Webview = WebKit/MSHTML (hopefully, Edge soon) and GTK/Cocoa/WINAPI for native windows: very lightweight, tiny binaries, but browser engines might be outdated (so use Babel for modern JS features), native window is fully controllable if you know C/ObjC. Also, supports C/C++/Go with bindings available for other languages. A bit harder to debug (not every browser engine comes with a great debugger/inspector).
• Lorca = Chrome/Chromium: small lightweight binaries, but requires Chrome to be installed. Only Go is supported, although I'm thinking about bringing similar Chrome Debug Protocol approach to webview some day. You don't have much control over the app window. But it's pure Go, so it's easy to use, to debug, to cross-compile, to deploy.

My goal is to keep Webview and Lorca very similar to each other in terms of API, ideally - compatible. So that users could start with Lorca to prototype the app, and if they see that they need more native features (window menus, better OS integration) - they could change it to Webview with little pain.

I'll close the issue, if you don't mind. But if you have any further questions - feel free to ask here.

[hasanAjsf]

Any update on this thread!