Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju...
by ezst on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:56AM
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> Essentially. you do not ship a browser in Tauri.
I mean, essentially you are? It just so happens that this web browser that your application very much runs on top of may link (to a more or less large extent) with the host OS "WebView"/built-in browser (assuming there's one to begin with). My point still stands: if you are lucky, you may save some on the binary size download, once, but the run time is a web app with all the quirks and inefficiencies of the web as a platform.
I mean, essentially you are? It just so happens that this web browser that your application very much runs on top of may link (to a more or less large extent) with the host OS "WebView"/built-in browser (assuming there's one to begin with). My point still stands: if you are lucky, you may save some on the binary size download, once, but the run time is a web app with all the quirks and inefficiencies of the web as a platform.