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Beautiful, I have a fetish for beautiful software so here goes my upvote ^

I believe more Rust/Tauri apps will flood the market as that's the best combo right now for desktop apps in universal knowledge reusability for those who come from the web world HTML, CSS, JS. Simplicity and portablility

Just downloaded it and at 8MB is a thing of joy to see apps small again

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Won't happen until Tauri can treat Linux as a first class platform. Which they cannot do because of architectural design and library choices.

Is there any webview control ready to use in linux? When I say Tauri it's just the webview control, used as a cargo package as "wry" in macos. I don't care about the framework itself, just the webview control. If that's the case then Rust/(stripped down WebView) is all we need to be honest

Edit: Looks like the same "wry" package can be used in linux

https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry

The README for wry under Platform Considerations suggests its not actually implementing the webview but just a wrapper that uses the correct one for each platform. The usage of WebKitGTK IS the problem that makes it second class on linux. I talked about this more in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514323

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