[oi-dev] Porting Node/Electron to Illumos

[Atiq Rahman]

Hi Till,
So, there's no plan in future for bringing in chromium related technologies
i.e., google's v8 engine / node / electron? I suppose the port on x86 for
illumos should be straightforward compared to SPARC. How about an x86 only
port? Is that on the agenda?

Best!

Atiq


On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Atiq
>
> Chromium is a massive porting effort with many patches and thus
> unfortunately beyond my capabilities time and interest. I am working on
> the Package manager and headless installer. We have a brwoser that works
> well and webkitgtk which is the better embedded option for frameworks.
> Electron is one thing. Having enough versions of it available to compile
> all electron apps under the Sun a even more burdensome effort.
>
> We welcome any contributions to the project.
>
> -Till
>
> On 8/26/25 22:16, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Signal Desktop requires Electron. Similarly, does Telegram require that?
> >
> > I guess porting chromium is a high-pri since it keeps coming back
> > everywhere as a dependency. @Till
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Atiq
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM dan via openindiana-discuss <
> > openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> As in my stations I always had Telegram nice doing like universal
> >> messanger interface from/to different devices, I'm here to ask
> >> to put in agenda the port of any Telegram client..
> >>
> >> thx
> >>
> >> Dan
> >> 5mode
>
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