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by willchen 383 days ago
I recently built an Electron app (http://dyad.sh/) and I looked at other options like Tauri, but Electron has such a mature ecosystem (e.g. https://www.electronforge.io/) that I was able to ship a cross-platform app in a couple weeks (Mac+Windows) and then adding Linux support was pretty trivial.

The only downside from my point of view is the large installer size for Electron apps, but it hasn't been a big issue for our users (because they will need to download quite a bit of other stuff like npm packages to actually build apps with dyad)

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This was my experience as well. We also looked at Tauri but we ultimately decided on Electron due to its prevalence and us not wanting to fight the tide.