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Discussion on: What new software libraries and tools etc. are you excited about?

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Mike Bybee

Interesting. I'm always keeping an eye on Electron alternatives, but this one either slipped by me or I forgot about it.

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Heiker

They changed the name of the project, maybe you knew them with the old name (which I don't remember). I think the idea of using the "native webview" of the operating system is not new but the things they want to put on top make it look quite nice.

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Mike Bybee

I remember one along those lines a few years ago that went nowhere.

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Mike Bybee • Edited

As someone who builds apps targeting web, mobile, and desktop from the same codebase using React Native, the webview portion is a much simpler (not necessarily better) answer than desktop primitives (e.g. nodegui). If Tauri is light enough without bugginess (I seem to recall some issues with gtk-webkit2 before), then the performance difference between native and webview might be miniscule enough to make this viable.