Electron vs. Tauri

Post by auraham » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

hysan wrote: post #70

Arrowmaster wrote: post #12

The author has obviously never tried Tauri on Linux. I've never seen one of their AppImages work correctly. Every project uses the upstream GitHub action to build binaries and it compiles dynamically linked binaries limited to the glibc from the Ubuntu 22 or 24 VM used. Xdg-open is often broken too from broken environment variables in the AppImages, so you can open a link in the default web browser. The entire build…

Yup, came here to say this. After reading the article, it became abundantly clear that the author doesn’t support Linux and most of the article is just a summary of the common Tauri talking points that are out of date. To add data to this - Tauri is looking to allow embedding chromium as an option because the creator of Tauri acknowledged that it doesn’t work well on Linux. To the point where if Linux is a serious ta…

Post by niutech » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 3:17 PM UTC

msla wrote: post #75

dfabulich wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like they always say: Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux.

Well, it certainly isn't a stable ABI on Windows.

Post by niutech » Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 3:26 PM UTC

hysan wrote: post #70

Arrowmaster wrote: post #12

The author has obviously never tried Tauri on Linux. I've never seen one of their AppImages work correctly. Every project uses the upstream GitHub action to build binaries and it compiles dynamically linked binaries limited to the glibc from the Ubuntu 22 or 24 VM used. Xdg-open is often broken too from broken environment variables in the AppImages, so you can open a link in the default web browser. The entire build…

Yup, came here to say this. After reading the article, it became abundantly clear that the author doesn’t support Linux and most of the article is just a summary of the common Tauri talking points that are out of date. To add data to this - Tauri is looking to allow embedding chromium as an option because the creator of Tauri acknowledged that it doesn’t work well on Linux. To the point where if Linux is a serious ta…