I think 7-Zip's awesome compression ability + its installer implementation could blow Google Web Bundles out of the water, and do so in the developer-friendly 7-Zip open source way too. Also, naturally Google is putting restrictions on how Web Bundles can be shared, and developers are at the mercy of Google's whims to change things at any moment as usual.
I'd bet good money 7-Zip still makes a smaller archive bundle on the same code than a Web Bundle, and in a more practical way too. Google obviously sees the need for such a thing with their recent focus on Web Bundles, but it strikes me as odd with their approach of crunching to single HTML file and converting to CBOR. Iphone/iOS is the one I haven't yet seen 7-Zip working code for, but I bet it's out there somewhere. ARM64 builds are a thing, and there's some Android experiments I have seen. Now Igor has made 7-Zip on Linux much more official with this release. It already works to create installer bundles on Windows (obviously), Macs I believe, and has been working on Linux in an unofficial way using old code.
7-Zip's self-extracting installer seems perfect for this. I want to be able to bundle the app into a single file that I can email to people and then they can use it with a single click. In that regard, it's just like any downloaded web app, but the distinction is I would like to have the ability to create and share such 'web apps' completely without any remote hosting. Instead of duplicating all that Chrome code, just use the already installed browser launched in full screen mode. do in creating clickable icon apps that feel native, but do it without the bloat.
The notion is to do what Electron, NW.js, Ionic, etc. Also Mwali is the Creator God of the Kalanga people of Africa which is cool. It's an acronym created from Mac+Windows+Android+Linux+iOS. I have started developing a project I am calling 'MWALI'.
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