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The lengths we will go to avoid writing a proper desktop application.
But I already know how to write a web app, I don’t know how to write a desktop app. It’s faster to just write and wrap a web app, and as far as most people can tell, it works just fine. Ya gotta be practical.
And for most apps using browser based rendering won't be an issue. People often underestimate how optimized mondern browsers really are. And because Chromium is not shipped the bundle size is managable.
Not wanting to use JS on the backend I tried both Tauri and Wails and found the simplicity of Go to just work perfectly for my use-cases
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because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as well as the web
There are quite a few. Qt, React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter come to mind.
The lengths we will go to avoid writing a proper desktop application.
because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as well as the web
I can also think of QT and GTK for other languages too.
Anyone knows how wails v3 is progressing and if they are actually adding mobile support?
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There are quite a few. Qt, React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter come to mind.
I wouldn't exactly call Flutter native. It uses its own rendering engine and doesn't necessarily behave like operating system native controls. It is not really different from using electron.
GTK and KDE controls are native to GTK and KDE.
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because there is no proper UI library that does cross platform as well as the web
There are quite a few. Qt, React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter come to mind.
On Windows, it's not even obvious what native is any more, even Microsoft just uses Web views. Mac is a bit better, but there are still 4 UI libraries to choose from (AppKit, UIKit through Catalyst, native SwiftUI and Catalyst SwiftUI).
I'm personally a fan of AppKit and Win32, but those are "dated" apparently.
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There are quite a few. Qt, React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter come to mind.
Those are not native (on desktop) in any sense of the word. They don't use native controls. For that, you want WX or SWT, but those come with their own sets of problems. On Windows, it's not even obvious what native is any more, even Microsoft just uses Web views. Mac is a bit better, but there are still 4 UI libraries to choose from (AppKit, UIKit through Catalyst, native SwiftUI and Catalyst SwiftUI). I'm personall…