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Comment by choeger

4 years ago

Basically an early incarnation of what electron does today, no?

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psanford  4 years ago

No.

sitkack  4 years ago

Yes, at a certain abstraction level, Yes!

It provides a high level framework to run user code and handle IO. Folks that use Emacs or Vi (famously Mutt) to drive their console apps is very similar to how folks use Electron for desktop applications.

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