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Re: Tauri Mobile Alpha Release

#11
post #7

Love hand wavy product pages for apps Ive never heard of. Tells you who knows what their doing and who you can ignore.

It's a link to a blog post announcing a release. The product page [1] is a bit more informative. The best 3 word summary probably is "Electron, but rust". [1]: https://tauri.app

And not bundling Chromium, but using OS-native webview instead.

Re: Tauri Mobile Alpha Release

#15
there are webview libraries from windows/linux/macos so electron.js-without-chromium works.

are there similar webview libraries from android and ios that you can link to as the desktop OS does? anyone knows what those libraries are?

I wish there is a c++ electron.js alternative, we now have tauri(rust) and wails(go), I'm using webview on github to use c++, just not as polished but it works well though.

Re: Tauri Mobile Alpha Release

#17
The Tuauri team needs to focus on maturing its primary codebase and documentation before branching out to assign teams to separate projects like this. I've written a few hundred lines of code using Tauri, and I've had to do much more API wrangling and searching the official Discord than I would have liked -- a lot of valuable API details are tucked away in very specific places, especially related to using Tauri's state manager, creating mockup tests, and technical information on the IPC model. In addition, some of those APIs are obtuse and confusing to interpret how to use.

Tauri does a few things very well, and its frontend model is much more lightweight and flexible than Electron's. However, the project has a long way to go before it's used in the mainstream and really needs to continue to make testing, debugging, and other DX details much more accessible and clear to gain an edge in the market.

Re: Tauri Mobile Alpha Release

#18
Tauri is pretty cool stuff and great for simple single threaded apps. With all the make X model run on Y, I’d caution folks with multithreaded needs to wait until another release.

Mac’s multithreaded environment went just fine; and on task completion could be killed off. However the Windows version spun up fine, then hung, then wouldn’t shut down all the threads leaving odd state everywhere.

Re: Tauri Mobile Alpha Release

#19
This is a huge reason to go with Tauri over Electron. I don't get why there isn't (or is there) a simple way to package a web app for all platforms. Everyone still makes this weird artificial distinction between Desktop and Mobile despite the technical capabilities and user expectations being close to the same.

Re: Tauri Mobile Alpha Release

#20

This is a huge reason to go with Tauri over Electron. I don't get why there isn't (or is there) a simple way to package a web app for all platforms. Everyone still makes this weird artificial distinction between Desktop and Mobile despite the technical capabilities and user expectations being close to the same.

This release is basically the reason I chose Tauri when I started writing my app like a year ago. Very exciting to see, can't wait to try it out.
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