Deno Desktop

From the Desktop apps section of the Deno documentation: deno desktop turns a Deno project (anything from a single TypeScript file to a Next.js app) into a self-contained desktop application. The output is a redistributable binary that bundles your code, the Deno runtime, and a web rendering engine into one bundle per platform. I'm happy to see another attempt at solving the biggest issues with Electron apps (other notable attempts being Tauri, Electrobun, and Neutralinojs).According to the docs, Deno Desktop is only available in Deno's canary channel at the moment. So I obviously installed it (version 2.8.3+893d85b) and tried running a Hello World example app.On first run, Deno spent a few minutes downloading laufey-cef-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz, then packaged the example into an app bundle weighing 308.8MB.I was curious about that download. A quick Kagi search led me to the homepage for a Rust/C library called laufey, which appears to be the tech underpinning Deno Desktop.Running…