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> People say Electron is heavy and not great, but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once Websites have actually long been a g
by lelandfe 4mo ago
> People say Electron is heavy and not great, but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once
Websites have actually long been a great cross-platform mechanism
Just a shame about the giant browser you have to load first
- moritzwarhier 4mo agoTo be fair, implementing something like the Spotify client does require a web app, not "just" a web site. But even document rendering with light scripting is not trivial so yeah, the required browser is the bottleneck. I always wonder (layman question): couldn't native Electron apps (and similar technologies) save a great deal of RAM by using the same sandboxing model for apps that browsers use for tabs, instead of fully-fledged instances? Was that an idea that Tauri also tries to implement, or am I remembering this wrongly?
- ymolodtsov 4mo agoIt'd be great if Electron itself became a core part of the OS. Tauri is closer to this on MacOS because it tries to use WebKit but not enough.