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When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.
Summary
How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint. As the world’s billionaires anxiously plot datacenters to run trillions of lines of AI-generated slop code, one software engineer has zagged in a completely different direction: building an ecosystem for writing and running small apps that run on desktop computers, like it was 1992 all over again.
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