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by lolbutseriosuly 1292 days ago
>Our requirements for the app were: to be lightweight and fast, in other words, use as little CPU cycles and memory as possible. [...] For the GUI, we chose the Tauri platform on which we built a React frontend. Tauri reuses an already installed browser on your system.

Ah, yes, that's one way to "use as little CPU cycles and memory as possible" for sure.

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Reusing the already installed browser is better than Electron, which packages its own browser. Many popular apps, like Slack, Asana, Discord, Github Desktop each install a full browser on your system (see https://www.electronjs.org/apps for more).