I thought it would be nice to have a concrete example of the same app made with Electron versus Sciter.<p>So I cloned Clipper (<a href="https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper</a>) in Sciter to the best of my ability.<p>The original as an Electron app is 165mb.<p>In contrast, the Sciter release is only 6mb (3mb compressed).<p>I used Quark (Sciter's version of electron-builder) to pack the program's resources into a single file, and here is the result: <a href="https://github.com/GirkovArpa/clipper-sciter/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/GirkovArpa/clipper-sciter/releases</a> (I've only packaged for Windows at the moment).<p>Actually it didn't pack the .mp3 files for some reason so I just zipped those up with the executable.<p>Not only is the filesize a magnitude of order lighter, but it starts up way faster and without an empty grey window at the beginning.<p><i></i>Some caveats:<i></i><p>- I haven't copied the button click waves effect from here: <a href="https://materializecss.com/waves.html" rel="nofollow">https://materializecss.com/waves.html</a> (yet).<p>- I haven't implemented the tray icon (yet).<p>- Popups which are supposed to be hidden offscreen until activated can be scrolled into view when the list of clipboard history is long enough. I intend to fix this as soon as I can and have posted a question about it in the official Sciter forums here: <a href="https://sciter.com/forums/topic/position-absolute-bottom-0-doesnt-update-on-scroll/" rel="nofollow">https://sciter.com/forums/topic/position-absolute-bottom-0-d...</a><p>I would like to emphasize that this is my attempt at a clone but it's not a port. Since the original Clippy is written in React, a genuine port would utilize Sciter's "Reactor".