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muon
C2019–2023
ImVexed / muon

muon

GPU based Electron on a diet

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6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.9KGitHub stars
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GPU based Electron on a diet

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Observed mentions: 2019-10-07 21:04:23 UTC to 2023-12-18 20:22:31 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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For lightweight alternatives to Electron.js (apart from Tauri), have a look at: - Sciter (https://sciter.com) - Yue (https://libyue.com) - Wails (https://wails.io) - Muon (https://github.com/ImVexed/muon) and Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht) - Gluon (https://gluonjs.org) - NeutralinoJS (https://neutralino.js.org) - Proton Native (https://proton-native.js.org) - NodeGUI (https://nodegui.org) - DeskGap (https://deskgap.com) - Graffiti (http://tomsik.cz/graffiti/)
In This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
I do care, and in your example, it depends on what license the project uses and how "proprietary_library" is distributed. In this specific case, if Muon distributed a copy of Ultralight (which it doesn't seem to; I'm not sure why I'm spending so much time on this), the it could not be GPL'ed, for example, because Ultralight has a proprietary (incompatible) license [2]. For a license like MIT or BSD, I think applying that license is technically valid, but again, not very practical. I doubt Muon would make it into the OpenBSD repos, for example. Its distribution is hindered by the depedency. Basically, "open source" doesn't really mean anything in this context; you need to consider specific licenses and circumstances. [1] https://github.com/ImVexed/muon/tree/master/ultralight [2] https://github.com/ultralight-ux/Ultralight/blob/master/lice.
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In Muon: GPU Based Electron on a Diet
Wow this is great. > https://forum.ultralig.ht/t/community-language-bindings/20 ``` Several awesome members of our community have created bindings for other languages! Check them out below: C# – https://github.com/ImpromptuNinjas/UltralightSharp 104 Rust (High Level) – https://github.com/psychonautwiki/rust-ul 21 Rust (Low Level) – https://github.com/psychonautwiki/rust-ul-sys 7 Java – https://github.com/Janrupf/ultralight-java 10 Go (High Level, Framework) – https://github.com/ImVexed/muon 22 Go (Low Level)-- https://github.com/raff/ultralight-go 19 Let me know if I’m missing any and I’ll add it to this sticky!```
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