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Is this unmaintained ? #163
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First of all, thanks for releasing this! Really has the potential for making it easier to build desktop applications without the full bloat of frameworks like electron.
I have used carlo in a number of projects and am really impressed.
That being said, there seems to be many critical issues open with no response.
Is carlo gonna be unmaintained ? and if not then what are the updates and fixes planned by the team ?
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esamattis commentedon Feb 27, 2020
I guess it is unmaintained https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424885
eligrey commentedon Feb 27, 2020
@paulirish Can we get an official deprecation notice?
paulirish commentedon Feb 27, 2020
Hi all,
Apologies for the radio silence.
Unfortunately, yes this repo is no longer maintained. It was launched in @GoogleChromeLabs as we were uncertain about its long-term longevity, and unfortunately the original engineers working on the effort have left Google and we don't have the resources to sustain the project.
It's rather sad as many of us enjoy the functionality and design of Carlo. Perhaps it will live on in a community fork.
Paul
Chrome team
frank-dspeed commentedon Jul 20, 2020
@paulirish i do adopt maintain and build open-pwa on it a little project from me to make a universal Plattform to run and install isolated apps on any device. We have for example already a concept that works like carlo but for android and ios via the webview of chrome. The Carlo code will extend that to Linux Windows MacOS
Thanks for the great idea. Of using Pupeeter for Window Control.
https://github.com/open-pwa/open-pwa
sidevesh commentedon Jul 20, 2020
That concludes this issue then, closing,
I guess I should also add a deprecation notice to my project https://github.com/sidevesh/quark-carlo that used carlo
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
visionarylab commentedon Aug 14, 2020
@frank-dspeed Contact with Microsoft and Mozilla. Since now only few teams left might willing to working with this if not from Google.
Since Microsoft using Chrome now it make sense and co-align with their goal of WebView2. Probably after they finalized WebView2.
frank-dspeed commentedon Aug 15, 2020
@visionarylab good idea my open-pwa project is like webview2 but it uses open interfaces to archive that there is no need for a extra spec while it is a nice extra integration thanks for the info i will add webview2 support to open-pwa
Carlo is no longer maintained.
crisdosaygo commentedon Dec 6, 2025
😢