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Cross-Platform Desktop Wars: Electron vs Tauri: How do you explain the tradeoffs to users?
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Cross-Platform Desktop Wars: Electron vs Tauri: How do you explain the tradeoffs to users?

via Dev.toNikolas Dimitroulakis2h ago

Hello, I am writing cause I wanted to get some opinions from folks here that have actually built and shipped with Electron (or Tauri). Background: Building an API IDE on Electron. Not really “just an API client”, and not a(nother) thin wrapper around a webapp either. It’s a pretty original desktop tool with a lot of editor/IDE-like behavior - not the typical form centric behavior that postman or others have: local workflows, richer interactions, and some things that honestly would have been much harder for us to build and iterate on this quickly in a more constrained setup. Thats why Electron. this is the tool: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden Now, as adoption is growing, we are starting to get the usual questions about memory footprint and app size. The (slightly) frustrating part is this: When the app is actually being used, the app-side memory is often pretty reasonable. In many normal cases we are seeing something like 50–60 MB for the actual usage we care about (even added it in

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