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Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application

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Re: Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

piratey wrote: post #3

Using Tauri for my most recent project, I have to say the Development experience was phenomenal. Only downside that the article rightly points out us the knowledge of Rust, which was new to me. Also Tauri has Android & iOS targets on its roadmap too.

What were your first impressions of Rust?

Re: Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application

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Post by pkulak »

> And if your user has the correct runtime for the webview used by Tauri you can just send them a single executable

So does this mean all these comparisons are between a web bundle that runs on an existing VM, and a web bundledthat came packaged with a VM? Because I thought the whole point of Electron was that all the dependencies came packaged together, even if that adds 100 megs to the install.

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Post by api »

One thing I don't see mentioned is the horror of shipping for Windows. You'll need Windows to have the Edge runtime, which means you have to bundle it or install it as an add-on. People will complain about this, especially IT people, because Edge runtime runs some kind of stupid background service all the time for no clear reason. It's also brittle since you will have to constantly keep your installer up to date with new releases of the Edge runtime or use a fragile MS URL that could stop working at any time and that won't work behind some firewalls.

TL;DR: trying to use the native web view on Windows is horrible because there is no native web view and MS can't bundle software for their own platform.

Of course I suppose shipping any software for Windows is horrible...

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