Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries

Re:Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that ha... by danpalmer on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:51PM (#23773040)

I disagree. If you follow the game engine analogy/thought experiment, I think there's much more that could be done.

There's a language, yes. There's also a runtime. There may be an interpreter depending on the language.

There's probably also a defined way of getting UI on to the screen in a platform independent way. There's probably also higher level concepts, maybe something that works a bit like a service worker, to use web terminology. There's likely to be a database of some sort, an app deployment system, software updates.

I'm not proposing a specific technology, but rather pointing out that there are a lot of parallels, and by realising that we're now using web technologies for shipping apps that aren't otherwise websites, maybe we could open up a lot of new potential solutions that might be even better.

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Re:Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that ha... by mech422 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:26PM (#23773879)

There are interpreters that have offered those services for years. Hell, Didn't Visual Basic include a GUI layer 20 years ago?

I'm not arguing the utility of what your describing, just pointing out its not a new concept...

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Re:Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that ha... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:05PM (#23773181)

Except that you don't need to create anything new to be there. Java is already there right now. It has literally everything you listed.

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Re:Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that ha... by nitrogen on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:35PM (#23776442)

Swing got an undeservedly bad reputation due to the bad default LAF. I wrote some pretty sweet stuff in Swing.

Anyway Qt is reasonably close as well, but with a compile per platform.

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