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27 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 2 stories, 25 comments · first 2018-11-01 · latest 2025-12-06

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    Carlo is no longer maintained
    story by keepamovin · 2025-12-06 · 6 comments
  2. …to hear, sad that it's no longer maintained. Glad to see Lorca [2] as a spiritual successor. [1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo/ [2] https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by ptrik · 2020-08-11 · in Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
  3. Google had a project called Carlo to do this: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo But it's been discontinued now that the devs left the company. I also see this project but you have to write Go to talk to the OS, not Node:…
    comment by exclipy · 2020-06-13 · in Flow browser passes the Acid tests
  4. …Chromium bundled with the app. Not sure if puppeteer installs a local or system wide Chromium. 2: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo/issues/90
    comment by NullPrefix · 2020-02-26 · in NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
  5. There's Carlo [1], which is an alternative to Electron that uses locally installed Chrome. 1: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by NullPrefix · 2020-02-26 · in NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
  6. Sadly looks dead... https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo/issues/163
    comment by latchkey · 2020-02-26 · in NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
  7. …secure (by virtue of not using IE) and produces even more lightweight bundles than NeutralinoJS. 1. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by Sephr · 2020-02-26 · in NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
  8. …sort of does that. It uses your system's already-installed Chrome instead of packaging another one. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by bengl · 2020-02-26 · in NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
  9. This is what Carlo[1] was made to solve. 1. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by Sephr · 2020-02-05 · in I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system
  10. …[2]: https://central.github.com/deployments/desktop/desktop/lates... [3]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo [4]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by throwGuardian · 2019-12-12 · in Flutter: UI platform designed for ambient computing
  11. Also mentioned in another thread: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by tracker1 · 2019-11-18 · in WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
  12. …2. Lorca (Chrome): https://github.com/zserge/lorca 3. Carlo (js/Chrome): https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by throwGuardian · 2019-11-18 · in WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
  13. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by The_rationalist · 2019-08-23 · in Rust GUI ecosystem overview
  14. …be nice to see if it decrease or increase with releases. Also it would be nice to benchmarck with https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo With an up to date chrome instance (76) And optionally with chrome canary. And optionally again…
    comment by The_rationalist · 2019-08-16 · in Memory Footprint of GUI Toolkits
  15. …and certainly not in line with the "lean, performant" GUI marketing that flutter claims [1]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo [2]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by writepub · 2019-08-16 · in Memory Footprint of GUI Toolkits
  16. Electron currently has a prototype https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673 Solved by https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo I'm not aware if Cordova or ionic capacitor has the feature.
    comment by The_rationalist · 2019-06-25 · in Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps
  17. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by The_rationalist · 2019-04-25 · in Flutter desktop shells
  18. …;) I feel it though.. we might look at porting to Carlo or something in the future if possible: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by burtonator · 2019-04-23 · in I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet
  19. …It's basically what a Chrome app used to be (now deprecated), but run from a Node.js script. [1]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by cprecioso · 2019-04-02 · in I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
  20. There's always Carlo[1] as an alternative. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by tracker1 · 2019-02-05 · in Electron v5.0 Timeline
  21. …can use Chrome + NodeJS as the shared runtime instead of Electron, using an approach such as this: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo You still need to bundle a copy of NodeJS with your app if you're not targeting developers, but…
    comment by matharmin · 2019-02-05 · in Electron v5.0 Timeline
  22. carlo by Google Chrome team https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by tuananh · 2018-12-27 · in WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
  23. Flutter doesn't use Chrome. I think you're thinking of Carlo[1]. [1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by dstaley · 2018-12-26 · in WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
  24. …using the cool https://github.com/zserge/webview library, recently started redoing it with https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by SiDevesh · 2018-12-26 · in WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
  25. …closest thing available to what you're describing. Main drawback imo is that it's Chrome-only. [1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by smaddock · 2018-12-21 · in Electron 4.0.0
  26. >I wonder if Carlo would install Chrome for you if it was missing It doesn't currently: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo#q-what-happens-if-... Perhaps it could though.
    comment by milesokeefe · 2018-11-01 · in Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications
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    Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications
    story by styfle · 2018-11-01 · 92 comments