• 🔻Sleepless One🔻
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    1511 months ago

    Tauri uses the OS’s built in webview libraries as opposed to bundling a whole browser engine like electron. It’s still not as good as native in terms of size and speed, but it should be a lot better than electron.

    • @dan@upvote.au
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      211 months ago

      If you’re going to create a desktop app in JS, React Native is better as it can use native UI elements. It does mean that the UI code may differ a bit between platforms, but you can still reuse most of your code between platforms.

      Otherwise, C# with Uno Framework or MAUI looks promising for cross-platform dev.

      • @kennismigrant@feddit.nl
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        611 months ago

        C#

        Uno

        MAUI

        promising

        meanwhile microsoft themselves migrate away from that in favor of chromium/electron in Teams, Outlook and whatever else they ship

        • @dan@upvote.au
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          11 months ago

          Microsoft use a lot of different technologies. It’s a large company and generally at big tech companies there’s no company-wide mandate about frontend frameworks/libraries. They use React Native in a bunch of things, including in Office, the Xbox app, and some of the apps that ship with Windows. They have a lot of apps written in C++. They have some Electron apps too. They have web apps using React, some using Angular, and some using custom frameworks.