Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by niyaven on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:57AM
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> If not, what's wrong with it "spread[ing]" everywhere?
Because then it's a monopoly. I'm taking shortcuts but having a single browser engine controlled by a single company means that you rely on that company to define what is tomorrow's web like.
Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by bredren on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:57AM
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Without this kind of thing happening at times, we might still be using Flash.
Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by kbelder on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:42PM
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Electron feels to me a lot like stand-alone flash apps used to feel.
I get that same feeling when I open an program using it; kind of a 'oh...' slight disappointment. I get that it makes sense sometimes for a developer to sacrifice performance and size for ease of development... but as a user, it feels like a loss, a sign the developer will be taking too many shortcuts, or that I just won't like their general design philosophy.
If not, what's wrong with it "spread[ing]" everywhere?
It's hardly lazy dev work. It's a pragmatic approach to developing cross platform apps quickly. Apps that, it might be added, don't have a horrendous UI, which is common with other frameworks.