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more0RLess on July 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Positron – A next-generation data science IDE

RStudio Desktop moved to Electron several years ago, and no longer uses Qt/QtWebEngine.

(I'm a developer who works on the RStudio IDE for Posit and was heavily involved in the move to Electron)

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