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by hresvelgr 59 days ago
> A fast, native markdown viewer for macOS built with Tauri v2, React, and markdown-it.

Since when is JavaScript native? Tauri may be using the system's web view but it's still a web view. False advertising.
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hnlmorg 58 days ago
Agreed. And since when is forking a web view “light weight” too?

It might be lighter than Electron, but that’s such a low bar that it’s not a brag worth making.

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GRVYDEV 58 days ago
This isn’t the 90s anymore. Using the systems web view is, in fact, native by definition.
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jazzypants 58 days ago
I'm a web developer too, and I would like this to be true, but it really isn't. Words have meaning. "Native" implies that you are *directly* using OS-specific API's. You are not.

You built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application using Web APIs. That's okay. You shouldn't lie about that.

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