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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by jkmcf on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:55AM (#25158600)
I'm excited about Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by solarkraft on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:52AM (#25158925)
There are tons of supposedly lighter weight electron alternatives. Why are they not more popular?
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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by whywhywhywhy on Friday November 20, 2020 @08:58AM (#25160469)
>Tauri apps currently leverages Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and MSHTML (IE10/11) or Webkit via Edge on Windows

This is why, the devs who settle for Electron more often than not are not interested in doing cross browser support either.

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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by ethanwillis on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:18AM (#25159735)
Corporate backed marketing and geographically centralized mindshare.
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