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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by CommonGuy on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:41PM (#26198381)
We use the WebView approach for Kreya[1], though not with Tauri. We had some occassional issues with Chromium/Safari differences, but otherwise it works fine.

We use WebView2 on Windows, Safari on macOS and WebKit2GTK on Linux. Not shipping a whole Chromium installation on each install and update reduces the installer and on-disk size a lot!

[1] https://kreya.app

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by dfabulich on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:43PM (#26199011)
https://kreya.app/docs/getting-started

I see issues here!

> Apple Silicon (M1) is not yet supported.

And on Linux,

> you may install Kreya by downloading the tarball. Note that both libgtk-3 and libwebkit2gtk-4.0 dependencies are required. Install them manually if they aren't present on your system.

libwebkit2gtk is, itself, _an embedded browser_, 44MB installed size, plus dependencies.

It's convenient that you can make Snapcraft install it for you, but that's not really different from making Snapcraft install Electron and running that.

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by CommonGuy on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:17AM (#26202085)
The Apple Silicon (M1) issue is because .NET (which we use for our "backend") doesn't support it yet.

Linux does not have a core WebView out of the box, so libwebkit2gtk is the closest alternative. Not optimal, but it works. Looks like Tauri uses libwebkit2gtk too.

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