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The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast

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12 pointsCharlieholtz6 comments

there is some overlap on how I built relay plugin: https://yujonglee.com/blog/hacking-tauri-for-designer/

Source code: https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog/tree/d38413681a3c02f5ba3...

This post is clearly an ad disguised as a technical article, but Conductor is a fantastic tool, so I'd like to post some questions regardless. How can they have product-market fit if this is a free product? How can they know the customers' willingness to pay for it there are no payments? Or has it been tested? How can this be worth a $ 22M series A if its a UX layer on top of Claude that can be easily copied by Anthropic?

People will pay for a good workflow/orchestration layer around coding models, see Cursor. I agree about the moat though, seems fragile.

Surprised to see they kept Tauri. In our experience of using Tauri, it has been a significant source of compatibility and performance issues related to it's use of WebKit and WebKitGTK. So much so that we have started an effort of migrating away from it for our app, in favor of Electron (https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/tree/master/apps/l...) The choice was made specifically for the benefit of our users, but we were also pleasantly surprised by how much better the development experience is with it.

I've been using Tauri for a while and haven't run into any issues with any of the apps I've written. Admittedly, most of them are fairly small, but the smaller footprint is a big plus in my book.

I'm usually only shipping things for one platform as well, so that helps a lot since I don't have to worry about any cross-platform issues.

I know Opencode also moved away from Tauri and I've seen a few other apps do so too that originally built on top of it. Its a bit sad to see, but I think I've heard the Tauri team is trying to address some of the common issues.

I find it refreshing to see dev tools competing on latency again. Has anyone tried both Conductor and Zed for agentic coding on a real project? How do they compare?

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