I’ve actually been working on adding more support for native widgets in Revery, mostly focusing on macOS since thats my daily OS, but Windows too. You can now use native buttons and menus, and I’m looking into adding other native inputs (like text fields).

This is great news. Native text inputs have a lot of important affordances like navigation keys, selection, and spelling.

Looking forward to seeing it displace Electron.

Back in the days, I would have bet on Revery as Electron replacement.

But currently, Tauri seems like a more viable option.

Not soon: however I like ML-style languages, it's JS / TS what has the mass market adoption now.

It's not even the language, it's not much harder to learn than TS. It's the smaller library ecosystem of Reason / OCaml.

But they get a simpler, sounder type system in OCaml as a result which should make maintenance easier for them. Given that they want this style of programming the ergonomics should be a lot easier than TypeScript as well.

Is it still running through javascript? I get confused by all the different interpretations of native.

Its written mostly in ReasonML (syntax for OCaml) with a bunch of C-libs wrapped in OCaml (Skia/Harfbuzz/SDL2 etc), so it compiles properly to native in the same way that normal OCaml code would.

The only JS in Revery is for some utility scripts and some aroud an option to compile to JS (which isn't functional at the moment, but the idea being you could compile to JS if you wished, with stubs to fill in the blanks for API calls that would normally hit Skia etc).