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While this definitely sounds like a good alternative to everything bundling its own Electron, I do have some questions.

To make sure I understand how viable this solution is...

On Windows, WebWindow uses the new Chromium-based Edge via webview2, assuming you have that browser installed (it could fall back on older Edge if you don’t, but I haven’t implemented that)

So this will currently only work for those running the absolutely newest version of Windows 10?

(But if the user does, you get a reasonably up to date and capable web-engine, which sounds good)

On Mac, it uses the OS’s built-in WKWebView, which is the same technology behind Safari

Sounds decent, I guess?

On Linux, it uses WebKitGTK+2, which is yet again a WebKit-based technology

Isn't WebKitGTK horribly outdated, or have things improved recently? Couldn't that be a source of issues down the road?

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