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by h4ch1 43 days ago
> Use the system WebView for lightweight apps, or bundle Chromium via CEF

so basically a vibe coded Tauri in zig? I don't like calling webview dependent applications "native desktop apps".

Native desktop apps means using the OS primitives and directives to draw the UI imo; WinForms, SwiftUI, and their ilk.
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thayne 43 days ago
Maybe it's called zero native because that is how native it is.
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rob74 43 days ago
That was my interpretation too (no idea if it's correct though)...
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popcorncowboy 43 days ago
"Not native" doesn't roll off the tongue quite so easily (dot com is available for a few grand). Concept is solid, an ingenious name even.
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delta_p_delta_x 42 days ago
Tiny nitpick: Windows Forms wraps the Windows API; the function call is `CreateWindowEx`[1].

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/27e7cb2e5043780dd75e...

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kroaton 42 days ago
If Tauri ever gets proper webgpu support, that'll be the Electron killer.
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cyanydeez 42 days ago
nothings going to kill electron. The value of packaging the chrome browser is you don't need to suddenly track down 4+ different webview rendering bugs, capabilities, etc.
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