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Just like building for the web then? In that scenario you also do not know what version the browser is (or even what kind of browser).

An advantage would be that the browser gets security patches by the OS.

Does it use less RAM because it's shared with the system browser? I sure as hell avoid all the Electron based apps because of their memory consumption.

Cross-browser compatibility is not too bad these days.

I did some testing using webview (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view) which is used by Tauri if I'm not mistaken. On Linux this uses webkitgtk, and it used a total of around 100 MB. That's not that good, but certainly better compared to Electron.

Is this really a problem now that IE11 is finally being deprecated? You basically have Blink/Gecko/Webkit which is no different from regular web dev