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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Regarding tauri: One and a half years ago I looked into it as a potential alternative to using electron.

    Back then I had to decide against it for my use case, because when the goal is that it’s a cross platform app, then one has to make sure that whatever “webview version” is used on all target OS, they all have to support the features one needs re one’s own app codebase. Back then I needed some “offscreen canvas” feature that chromium supported (hence electron), but which webkit2gtk (used on Linux) didn’t at the time.

    https://tauri.app/v1/references/webview-versions/

    So it’s not always easy to give a clear recommendation on using tauri over electron. One really has to get somewhat clear on what kind of “webview requirements” the resp. app will have.

    But I do hope this will (or maybe already is) less of an issue in upcoming years (things are moving fast after all).