Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by fn-mote on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:18AM
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> I have a hard time understanding why platforms like electron are so popular.
To what extent is Electron's popularity due to getting cross-platform availability without writing your code 3x?
The advantages of a native app have to be worth the costs... and I'm seeing plenty of Electron apps so there's a lot of people making that cost-benefit tradeoff.
I share the dislike for bloated apps... but every time my stuff takes 10 seconds to start up I think more about keeping it running the whole day than submitting a PR to remove cruft.
To what extent is Electron's popularity due to getting cross-platform availability without writing your code 3x?
The advantages of a native app have to be worth the costs... and I'm seeing plenty of Electron apps so there's a lot of people making that cost-benefit tradeoff.
I share the dislike for bloated apps... but every time my stuff takes 10 seconds to start up I think more about keeping it running the whole day than submitting a PR to remove cruft.