Tauri has been a thing for a while, it baffles me people still choose Electron without a good reason to do so.
Also webapps are just great nowadays most OS support install PWA's fairly decently no?
ffs
Also webapps are just great nowadays most OS support install PWA's fairly decently no?
ffs
For example, on Linux, it uses WebKitGTK as the browser engine, which doesn't render the same way Chrome does (which is the web view used on Windows), so multi-platform support is not totally seamless.
Using something like Servo as a lightweight, platform-independent web view seems like the way forward, but it's not ready yet.
Found this a few months ago: https://gifcap.dev/
Screen recording straight from a regular browser window, though it creates GIFs instead of video files. Links to a git repo so you can set it up locally.
It's about time Linux desktops adopt some form of ${XDG_WEB_ENGINES:-/opt/web_engines} convention to have web-based programs to fetch their engines as needed and play nice with each other.
I imagine if you stick to desktop the situation is less awful but still
I suspect the real reason electron got used here is that ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever has almost no Tauri example code in the training set, so for some developers it effectively doesn't exist.
I would say no, and some are actively moving away from PWA support even if they had it before.
Plus, electron et al let you hook into native system APIs whereas a PWA cannot, AFAIK.