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Comment by montymintypie | Hacker News Reader

What's your recommendation? I've tried so many multiplatform toolkits (including GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, Iced, egui, imgui, and investigated slint and sciter) and nothing has come close to the speed of dev and small final app size of something like Tauri+Svelte.

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I've also tried Flutter, React Native, Kotlin multiplatform, Wails.

I'm landing on Svelte and Tauri too.

The other alternative I dabble with is using the Android Studio, XCode to write my own WebView wrappers.

What did you dislike about kotlin multiplattform?

of course dev speed will be better with tauri plus the literal ton of JavaScript transpilers we use today.

but for us an inhouse egui pile of helpers allow for fast applications that are closer to native speeds. and flutter for mobile (using neither Cupertino or material)

Glad to hear that egui is working for you, but in my experience it's not accessible, difficult to render accurate text (including emoji and colours), very frustrating to extend inbuilt widgets, and quite verbose. One of my most recent experiences was making a fairly complex app at work in egui, then migrating to tauri because it was such a slog.

The web stack is now the desktop UI stack. I think the horse has left the barn.

It’s not great but there’s just no momentum or resources anywhere to work on native anymore outside platform specific libraries. Few people want to build an app that can only ever run on Mac or Windows.

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