When comparing Sciter vs Lara, the Slant community recommends Sciter for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform GUI toolkits?” Sciter is ranked 19th while Lara is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose Sciter is:
Support for C++, C#, Delphi, D, Go, Rust, Powerbuilder. See [Go bindings on GitHub](https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter). The binding for C# on GitHub, [SciterSharp](https://github.com/ramon-mendes/SciterSharp) does not seem to be free: in a commercial product you should acquire a commercial license.
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Pros
Pro Multi language
Support for C++, C#, Delphi, D, Go, Rust, Powerbuilder. See Go bindings on GitHub. The binding for C# on GitHub, SciterSharp does not seem to be free: in a commercial product you should acquire a commercial license.
Pro Lightweight
Only a single native DLL.
Pro Cross-Platform
Can develop in Windows, Linux and MacOS.
Pro Server-side rendering engine
Lara has a server-side rendering engine with virtual DOM.
Pro Open Source
Apache 2.0 license.
Cons
Con Linux version is not very mature
The Linux version is missing HTML/CSS features when compared to the Windows version.
Con Not fully HTML5 compliant
Lacking HTML5 functionality and W3C standards: grabbing a library like JQuery or Bootstrap and use it in Sciter will not work.
Con Not WYSIWYG
Not WYSIWYG like WebForms or WPF.