A lot of the bloat complaints about Electron are addressed well in Sciter (https://sciter.com/) although, Sciter has its own set of limitations. I have found Sciter a great option for many use cases. (I'm not affiliated with Sciter in any way).
Sciter and Ultralight are the way to go on paper. They address many of the issues of Electron and it does it in a very portable way. Instead of embedding the world in a giant toolkit, they give to you what you want as a library, easy to interface with native code.
However they are proprietary, and this is a no go for me and many. There is no way I bind my software stack to an arbitrary unstable compiler ABI and its platforms. Nor I will bet on a toolkit that can disappear tomorrow if its only maintainer disappears or get hit by a bus.
We need something like these projects, but OSS and still I would be happy to pay for that.
Ohh, never heard of Ultralight. Will check it out, thanks! I agree that licensing makes these products an issue for some, but they both seem to offer a very flexible free use option...
