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It's sad to witness how much suffering developers are ready to endure (and make their users suffer) just not to part ways with HTML/CSS/JS stack. The stack that was never designed properly, let alone for modern UI apps. Flutter would be much better choice for such a desktop app, for example.
I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched? It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was…
We actually haven't rolled out cross platform support yet with the Tauri version, so we will see how that goes. Our UI needs are simple, luckily. What kind of rendering differences were you seeing with Tauri? Was there one platform that worked the best/worst for your app? We'd love to support Windows next. With the Electron version of the app, we had issues running our bundled binaries on Macs with Intel chip. That c…
I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched? It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was…
Just recently Tauri announced: > This year we've got a lot of exciting innovations in store for you, like CEF and SERVO based webviews... From their discord.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518462
It would be great to see an up-to-date benchmark comparing modern cross-platform frameworks like Tauri, Flutter, Electron, React Native, and others. Key metrics could include: - Target bundle size - Memory usage (RAM) - Startup time - CPU consumption under load - Disk usage - e.t.c. Additionally, for frameworks like Tauri, it would be useful to include a WebView compatibility matrix, since the rendering behavior and…
I mean, I knew Electron was heavy, but holy cow that is HEAVY. No wonder that despite CPUs getting fast and RAM being 10x the size it used to be that software keeps feeling slower than ever. So you weren't talking RAM size, you were talking the size of the app itself? 1GB? That used to be the size for AAA games.
At a previous company we maintained a desktop electron app for Windows and macOS. It was super bloated though and updates with Squirrel were a pain. We kept the GUI as a web spa app (using Inferno) and wrote two small native apps with C# and Swift that would load a webview and other duties. App download size and memory consumption was reduced by like 90%. We also moved distribution and updates to the app stores of ea…
This is the first time I see someone praising distribution and updates through native app stores. The time to get update to users and the uncertainty, that it gets through the approval process are just some of the reasons. I know nothing about Squirrel, but what were the things that improved moving to native?
This was an app offered for free to some customers of the company. If the app had been the main commercial product we would have obviously opted for a better solution than distributing through stores or using Squirrel.
Back in 2018 we needed a server[1] that would notify Squirrel for the udpates. Squirrel worked ok on macOS but it was particularly bad on Windows. I don't remember the details... iirc Squirrel installed the actual executable in some weird folder and users would never be able to find the app if they deleted the link from the desktop.
I write a lot of small internal tools to enable my team to work more efficiently. I've traditionally used WinForms, but recently tried using WinUI3. Disaster. Not even close to ready. After that, switched to just using React, uploading to an Azure static site, and adding Tauri if someone really wants an executable. Finding what you're finding--Tauri gets you most of the way there and comes with a much smaller file si…