• Pechente@feddit.org
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    7 days 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.

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        6 days 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.

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

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