Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri

Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by txdv on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:20AM (#36414358)

I wanted to have apple notes on linux, so I used tauri and just redirected to the apple notes web app.

I could really feel the lag and the lack of snappiness when interacting with that UI.

Its webkit, safari also uses webkit? Why is it so slow?

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by PaulRobinson on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:55AM (#36414900)

I think you might be confusing an OS web view - which is what Tauri uses - with WebKit, which is the web view on Apple operating systems. It’s the way to get Safari inside your app if you are on an Apple device. On Linux, there is no WebKit, the web view will be your system browser. That might not be very fast.

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by saagarjha on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:04AM (#36414954)

WebKit definitely compiles for Linux. You can try it in GNOME Web.

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by c-hendricks on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:40AM (#36419976)

Tauri uses WebkitGTK, which has pretty bad performance compared to other browsers on the same hardware.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/890#issuecomment-14...

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Re:Building a Slack alternative with Rust/Tauri by creshal on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:34AM (#36416367)

WebKit is five loosely related browser engines in a trench coat. A lot of the code is "platform" specific, and most of the optimization happens in that layer. Apple's Cocoa webkit is a lot more polished than WebkitGTK could ever hope to be with its meagre dev resources.

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