As far as I can tell, they have reimplemented the electron api in Rust to make use of native web views removing the chromium dependency.

I agree it’s confusing and not clear on the homepage or from the hacker news title. I was expecting something like an electron framework using servo.

I would be much more interested in a Gecko/Servo alternative to Electron than a native webview alternative.

Not that I don't also acknowledge the need for that, but my application is dramatically faster in Firefox than Chrome, yet we're stuck packaging a suboptimal experience in the desktop app because Chromium is our only option.

We are going to put our demo app (that showcases the API) front and center on the landing page. Thanks for the input

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/tree/dev/examples/api

That's a great idea! We do have a revamp of the landing page ahead of us, now that our roadmap is almost completed.

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