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Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by berkes »

gitgrump wrote: post #329
sbarre wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from the improvements to project timelines, Electron and similar products are popular because they improve the developer experience, and in 2022 the developer experience is what matters the most to many software companies (yes, in many cases ahead of the customer experience). DX directly drives engagement and retention, and good developers are hard to find (and keep!). And like it or not, there are more and mor…

> ... and in 2022 the developer experience is what matters the most to many software companies... This is what happens when you keep lowering the bar, and more and more developers can do less and less.

No, this is what happens when supply and demand are way out of balance.

There simply aren't enough developers over the entire range, and certainly not enough with decades of experience, for all the work that can be done.

Renting additional servers, etc is cheap and easy compared to hiring additional developers. So we all optimize for that.

Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by int_19h »

pornel wrote: post #309
jokoon wrote: post #94

I have a hard time understanding why platforms like electron are so popular. The predictions from Gary Bernhardt seem to really be true, in the future everything will be javascript. I wonder if somebody actually tried to make an OS that only has a browser, that's what Chrome OS actually is, after all.

Right-click, Inspect Element. Web development tools have become fantastic UI debugging tools. You can inspect live running UI and tweak it in real time without a rebuild. CSS is very powerful, and it's relatively easy to build complex layouts with animations. People joke how it's impossible to center things, but CSS has matured beyond that (IE is dead).

WPF had the equivalent of "inspect element" 10 years ago. You don't need HTML for that, you just need good tooling.

Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by kyriakos »

dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #71
forgotmyoldacc wrote: post #3

If anyone wants to know how it works: > [leverages] WebKit on macOS, WebView2 on Windows and WebKitGTK on Linux. So cross-platform compatibility isn't guaranteed, unlike Electron. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

I guess but compatibility issues on the web, while they existe, are pretty discrete these days. Browser monoculture is exceedingly worse, both practically and from a business perspective, in my opinion.

Safari is missing features and has its own quirks so I wouldn't say that.

Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by bananabreakfast »

skinkestek wrote: post #277
spoiler wrote: post #210

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> Contrast to Chrome first developers who often get caught by cross browsers incompatibilities just like they did back in the days when they were IE first developers : ) I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this statement (and comparison to IE). If anything, Safari is "the new IE" rather than Chrome. MOST (hopefully the nitpickers pick up the caps lock) stuff in Chrome are drafts or standards. Sure, Google pioneere…

> I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this statement (and comparison to IE). If anything, Safari is "the new IE" rather than Chrome. Some people who either don't know history or willfully ignores it keeps claiming that Safari is the new IE, at one point one even made a webside out of it. Don't fall for it. Chrome is the new IE: - technologically advanced? Check! - implement a number of things without asking or wai…

I can't believe you seriously just suggested Google is going to abandon Chrome.

Next up, Microsoft is going to abandon Word. Also, Facebook is going to abandon Facebook. This is why no one takes these conversations seriously. All vitriol, no substance.

Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by berkes »

rk06 wrote: post #154
jokoon wrote: post #94

I have a hard time understanding why platforms like electron are so popular. The predictions from Gary Bernhardt seem to really be true, in the future everything will be javascript. I wonder if somebody actually tried to make an OS that only has a browser, that's what Chrome OS actually is, after all.

would you rather have three teams developing one app on three platforms (windows, mac, linux) or one team developing one app for all platforms? It makes perfect business sense to use electron. It opens paths which otherwise would be very costly and hence infeasible.

While I agree that maintaining one codebase is preferable, the 'teams' part is a bit off.

No-one wants 'three teams building one product' which is why it almost always is far better to have one team with android, iOS, web and desktop mixed. Obviously if their mixed erpertises are around one codebase, that is even better.

Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by bastardoperator »

dotancohen wrote: post #318
bastardoperator wrote: post #220

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How do you feel about video games that range hundreds of gigabytes?

I don't play video games, so I have no opinion of them. I actually do play Kerbal Space Program, though I think that it is a few hundred megabytes, certainly not even a single gigabyte.

1.9 GB on disk not including expansions.

https://www.gog.com/game/kerbal_space_program

Re: Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

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Post by throw10920 »

iterati wrote: post #320
throw10920 wrote: post #291

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What prevents you from using Qt to do almost exactly the same thing?

2 developers. Also, "almost exactly" is a funny oxymoron.

Qt is just as easy for 2 devs are webtech is? (that's a rhetorical question - it is.)
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