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Commendable effort! I’m currently using Tauri for a project myself and was wondering if anyone has any pros/cons between the two?

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Thank you! I heard some people saying that, for apps using JavaScript, Tauri is replacing Electron and is popular nowadays, since Electron is very widely used. It seems Tauri cannot let Rust communicate with JavaScript very seamlessly yet, e.g. https://tauri.app/v1/guides/features/command/ seems to have mainly basic features. oneshtein mentioned below that Tauri does not support mobile as first class citizen yet as well. Looking forward to seeing Tauri's bridge to improve and supporting mobile better in the future!

Thanks for the info! I will keep an eye on this for future projects, keen to try it out. I’m currently working on a project being converted from Electron to Rust/Tauri. I recall Flutter being discussed, but our frontend dev was more comfortable with React.

You are welcome and looking forward to it!

From what I can tell. I've not used Tauri and it's been years since I've tried flutter.

Tauri currently has poor support for mobile and Linux (because of the state of WebkitGtk).

Flutter uses Dart which is not widely used for anything else. Harder to learn as there is no MDN, w3schools or standard spec for it. Also Flutter Web has issues due to it's use of Canvas over the DOM.

IMO, electron is still the way to go for cross platform apps.

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