Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
by jakelazaroff on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:01AM
(#32447070)
As someone who cut their teeth on web development when we still had to deal with IE6, I just don't think this is a problem. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've had to fix major inconsistencies between browsers over the past few years.
Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
by musicale on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:24AM
(#32446885)
Imagine being able to run ten 1.6GB Electron apps in only 16GB of RAM - it's super efficient!
Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
by fluidcruft on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:26AM
(#32446894)
Wouldn't a web app have to deal with running in the various browsers anyway?
Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
by chii on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:28AM
(#32446902)
yes, a web based app would have to contend with the same issue. So what's the advantage of shipping a packaged app that also have the same problem, when shipping it as an electron app would solve this directly and easily?
Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
by iainmerrick on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:40AM
(#32446960)
The packaged app can work with the local file system, and call additional native APIs that aren’t available in a browser context.
Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
by devmor on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:53AM
(#32447031)
The main advantage is that the Tauri app runs its non-render contexts in Rust, on the metal, rather than in the javascript vm.
The secondary advantage is that you don't have to update and ship a new binary every time Chromium updates.
The weight of an app is more than just the size on disk, which tbh, is insignificant in today's harddrive. What's a couple hundred extra megs?
The advantage of shipping your own browser is the control, and thus, reduction in having to support multiple different webviews and the bugfixing associated with that.