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This is literally how every gui library on planet earth works. Developers all build against a particular recent released version with all apps in the system expected to build against a small number of recent versions.

If this is hard maybe its because the browser isn't a very good runtime to build against.



Right, but those systems are set up from the get-go with that usage pattern in mind, where you have an expectation of ABI compatibility and the underlying libraries as a shared resource.

The expectation with Electron has always been that you bundle a copy of it with your app, so that you're always targeting exactly that version.




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