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> That does help with the app sizes quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

Interesting resource, thanks!

Was not expecting the start up values for Tauri, they're abysmal ._. Welp, at least the executables are small.

Tauri uses the native webview on the platform, which is presumably why startup values are all over the place. (It's also somewhat suspect to the point of warranting investigation; even using the native webview there seems no reason for something that takes half a second on Windows to take 25 seconds on Linux).

I had this same observation. My guess is because Tauri uses WebGtk and Linux doesn’t really have a “native webview” so it’s kinda shipping the whole thing? The startup time seems like Tauri’s a non-starter for a lot of apps if you want them to be cross platform, had no idea this was a thing.

These startup times do not make any sense. I've developed a little toy app using Tauri+React and it starts pretty much "instantly" in all platforms.

For me Tauri/Wry starts up pretty instantaneous. This is using Wry as the renderer for the DomTerm terminal emulator (https://domterm.org), invoked with 'domterm -Bwry'. This is on Fedora Linux 41 x64. Admittedly using a rather old version of Wry (0.43.1) with webkitgtk 2.46.5 - I haven't had time to update.

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