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by nsingh2 408 days ago
Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron is because it uses different web views depending on the platform. I ran into a few SVG-related problems myself when trying it out for a bit.

For example, on Linux, it uses WebKitGTK as the browser engine, which doesn't render the same way Chrome does (which is the web view used on Windows), so multi-platform support is not totally seamless.

Using something like Servo as a lightweight, platform-independent web view seems like the way forward, but it's not ready yet.
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bigiain 408 days ago
> Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron

I suspect the real reason electron got used here is that ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever has almost no Tauri example code in the training set, so for some developers it effectively doesn't exist.

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lvass 408 days ago
>on Linux it uses WebKitGTK

It's about time Linux desktops adopt some form of ${XDG_WEB_ENGINES:-/opt/web_engines} convention to have web-based programs to fetch their engines as needed and play nice with each other.

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hulitu 408 days ago
It has: /dev/null /s
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jenadine 408 days ago
We're talking about a MacOS App. Platform-agnostic is irrelevant.
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nsingh2 408 days ago
It's relevant in the broader context, cross-platform is a significant reason people choose Electron, and lighter alternatives like Tauri still have some issues there.
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brooke2k 408 days ago
seconded -- tried to use tauri for a cross-platform app but the integrated webview on android is horrendous. had to rewrite basic things from scratch to work around those issues, at which point why am I even using a "cross-platform" framework?

I imagine if you stick to desktop the situation is less awful but still

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Izkata 408 days ago
> Tauri is not as platform agnostic as Electron is

Found this a few months ago: https://gifcap.dev/

Screen recording straight from a regular browser window, though it creates GIFs instead of video files. Links to a git repo so you can set it up locally.

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tough 408 days ago
Thanks, didn't knew about Servo, hopefully we'll get there Electron really is bloated and any app using it eats my ram whatever how much of it i have
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