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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by alooPotato on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:39PM (#26196353)
For most apps - wouldn't PWA's be sufficient as implemented today. Presumably, they'll expose more and more hardware APIs over time?
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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by qbasic_forever on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:59PM (#26196609)
Even basic things like reading and writing files from the filesystem are obnoxiously difficult in a pure browser or PWA environment. Storing state in general is full of enormous pitfalls and eccentricities, like 50mb limits for some browsers or just completely random total deletion of all app state at the browser's whim.
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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by alooPotato on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:09PM (#26196724)
Seems like they are making a lot of progress on that front: https://web.dev/file-system-access/
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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by Solid_Applaud on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:10PM (#26198062)
Fine, but these are proposals. We want something we can work with today, something that we have the power to hack on that will expose new systems we come up with to HTML/JS, and that is the niche that Electron-like systems fill really well.
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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by alooPotato on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:32PM (#26198900)
Supported in Chrome and Edge today.
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