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[-] Pechente@feddit.org 142 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For anyone considering Electron: take a look at Tauri. It’s another way to build cross-platform apps with web tech. It will use the OS‘s web rendering engine instead of shipping Chromium which results in much smaller binaries and faster startup times and less RAM usage. You can also write native code in Rust. It’s like Electron but good.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 51 points 1 day ago

Bad for Linux at the moment...

That being said, it won't improve just by saying it's bad for Linux, if you work as a maintainer in a distro, or know a lot about Linux and rust to help their development then please reach out!!!

The sooner tauri is usable everywhere the more people will prefer it

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Works fine for me on endeavourOS (Hyprland and i3).

What makes it bad for Linux?

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

First I've heard of this. What's wrong on Linux?

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Outdated theming and ~~several widgets(?)that aren't implemented~~ general instability such as random crashes, code not behaving similarly to Mac or Windows, slowdowns, missing packages in builds, a lot of window resizing issues and uh, fuck load of appimage issues

[-] Pechente@feddit.org 27 points 1 day ago

I didn't try out a Tauri app on linux yet, I just know that it's generally supported. What doesn't work (well) as of now?

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

What about Flutter? It was pretty nice to work with

[-] Pechente@feddit.org 8 points 18 hours ago

The reason people use Electron in the first place is that they wanna share a codebase between web, desktop and possibly mobile.

While Flutter can technically do that, the web apps it outputs are atrocious with poor usability and accessibility. It’s drawing the whole UI on a canvas element which causes all kinds of issues.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 points 6 hours ago

they wanna share a codebase between web, desktop and possibly mobile.

That way you get an app that’s crap on every platform.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Make sense, tnx

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

There's actually a pretty cool music player project I'm keeping an eye on called Audioling that's built on Tauri. I currently use one called Feishin which is pretty good.