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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by munificent on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:08PM (#26195987)
> is there room for a much more stripped down version of Chromium that is suitable for lower memory footprint?

That's basically the history of Flutter. The initial goal was something like "Web: The Good Parts" and the results of that experiment led them to where they are now.

Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by ducktective on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:58PM (#26196590)
I mean, where are they now? Promising or DoA? I fear touching it because of it being a Google project (killedbygoogle.com)
Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by jonathanaird on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:49PM (#26197244)
They’re putting a lot of resources behind and it actually is thriving. They have a real financial interest as there’s pretty thorough firebase support. It’s also reviving their Dart language.

As someone that’s using it, it is improving very quickly. Web support is getting quite good.

Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by chgibb on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:45PM (#26197187)
We're pretty bought into Flutter. No cross platform toolkit is perfect but Flutter is miles ahead of everything else. For a not very scientific analysis: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by nwienert on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:20PM (#26198182)
It’s definitely not miles ahead of just about anything.

It has significant tradeoffs and fits some projects better than others.

React Native has quite a few benefits over Flutter. Especially if building for the web, I’d actually say Flutter is only usable now if you don’t build your web app with it. Which in my cost benefit analysis makes it miles behind RN, but of course, that’s why it depends.