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Last time I checked Gtk has a web backend, meaning you can run basically any gtk app with the right environment variables and it'll pop open a browser with the app rendered pixel perfect into it.

I don't really think it's useful as an actual web technology since you'd need to spawn a process, reserve a port, and keep a connection open for each and every user which seems like it wouldn't be workable.

It's a neat trick though.




Oh awesome, I actually messed with broadway some yesterday on Gtk3 and while it works incredibly well it has some drawbacks to the point where I don't really see a use case so maybe you can enlighten me somewhat.

The main downside I see is that every single keystroke needs a roundtrip to the server. Given a ping time of ~200ms that already makes it nearly unusable. So that leaves running broadway on localhost but then why use broadway at all? You might as well run it normally.

Anyways it's a really cool backend and I feel like with a small amount of work it could actually be used for web-apps, with the amazing advantage of basically eliminating front-end programming entirely.




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