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Tauri has been a thing for a while, it baffles me people still choose Electron without a good reason to do so. Also webapps are just great nowadays most OS sup

by tough 2y ago

Tauri has been a thing for a while, it baffles me people still choose Electron without a good reason to do so. Also webapps are just great nowadays most OS support install PWA's fairly decently no? ffs

nsingh2 2y ago
Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron is because it uses different web views depending on the platform. I ran into a few SVG-related problems myself when trying it out for a bit. For example, on Linux, it uses WebKitGTK as the browser engine, which doesn't render the same way Chrome does (which is the web view used on Windows), so multi-platform support is not totally seamless. Using something like Servo as a lightweight, platform-independent web view seems like the way forward, but it's not ready yet.
- tough 2y ago
  Thanks, didn't knew about Servo, hopefully we'll get there Electron really is bloated and any app using it eats my ram whatever how much of it i have
- Izkata 2y ago
  > Tauri is not as platform agnostic as Electron is Found this a few months ago: https://gifcap.dev/ https://gifcap.dev/ Screen recording straight from a regular browser window, though it creates GIFs instead of video files. Links to a git repo so you can set it up locally.
- lvass 2y ago
  >on Linux it uses WebKitGTK It's about time Linux desktops adopt some form of ${XDG_WEB_ENGINES:-/opt/web_engines} convention to have web-based programs to fetch their engines as needed and play nice with each other.
  - hulitu 2y ago
    It has: /dev/null /s
- brooke2k 2y ago
  seconded -- tried to use tauri for a cross-platform app but the integrated webview on android is horrendous. had to rewrite basic things from scratch to work around those issues, at which point why am I even using a "cross-platform" framework? I imagine if you stick to desktop the situation is less awful but still
- jenadine 2y ago
  We're talking about a MacOS App. Platform-agnostic is irrelevant.
  - nsingh2 2y ago
    It's relevant in the broader context, cross-platform is a significant reason people choose Electron, and lighter alternatives like Tauri still have some issues there.
- bigiain 2y ago
  > Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron I suspect the real reason electron got used here is that ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever has almost no Tauri example code in the training set, so for some developers it effectively doesn't exist.
ranger_danger 2y ago
> Also webapps are just great nowadays most OS support install PWA's fairly decently no? I would say no, and some are actively moving away from PWA support even if they had it before. Plus, electron et al let you hook into native system APIs whereas a PWA cannot, AFAIK.
486sx33 2y ago
There’s never a good reason to chose electron.

by tough 2y ago

nsingh2 2y ago

Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron is because it uses different web views depending on the platform. I ran into a few SVG-related problems myself when trying it out for a bit. For example, on Linux, it uses WebKitGTK as the browser engine, which doesn't render the same way Chrome does (which is the web view used on Windows), so multi-platform support is not totally seamless. Using something like Servo as a lightweight, platform-independent web view seems like the way forward, but it's not ready yet.

tough 2y ago
Thanks, didn't knew about Servo, hopefully we'll get there Electron really is bloated and any app using it eats my ram whatever how much of it i have
Izkata 2y ago
> Tauri is not as platform agnostic as Electron is Found this a few months ago: https://gifcap.dev/ https://gifcap.dev/ Screen recording straight from a regular browser window, though it creates GIFs instead of video files. Links to a git repo so you can set it up locally.
lvass 2y ago
>on Linux it uses WebKitGTK It's about time Linux desktops adopt some form of ${XDG_WEB_ENGINES:-/opt/web_engines} convention to have web-based programs to fetch their engines as needed and play nice with each other.
- hulitu 2y ago
  It has: /dev/null /s
brooke2k 2y ago
seconded -- tried to use tauri for a cross-platform app but the integrated webview on android is horrendous. had to rewrite basic things from scratch to work around those issues, at which point why am I even using a "cross-platform" framework? I imagine if you stick to desktop the situation is less awful but still
jenadine 2y ago
We're talking about a MacOS App. Platform-agnostic is irrelevant.
- nsingh2 2y ago
  It's relevant in the broader context, cross-platform is a significant reason people choose Electron, and lighter alternatives like Tauri still have some issues there.
bigiain 2y ago
> Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron I suspect the real reason electron got used here is that ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever has almost no Tauri example code in the training set, so for some developers it effectively doesn't exist.

ranger_danger 2y ago

> Also webapps are just great nowadays most OS support install PWA's fairly decently no? I would say no, and some are actively moving away from PWA support even if they had it before. Plus, electron et al let you hook into native system APIs whereas a PWA cannot, AFAIK.

486sx33 2y ago

There’s never a good reason to chose electron.