It sure is interesting how Tauri doesn't get shit on anywhere near as much as Electron, even though there is very little technical difference between the two, and the 'arguments' against Electron are supposedly of a technical nature
@joepie91 The concern I've often heard is memory consumption, and that is going to follow you anywhere you use a web runtime. I think Electron just gets flack because it's the most often used web app bundling tool, but it's the "web" bit causing the problems usually.
Not that building web apps is inherently bad either. There is lots of complexity, and it's possible to build bad web apps (I know I've worked on a few).
@halfy There's nothing about "web" applications that makes them use more RAM, though, and even if there were, Tauri would be affected just the same as Electron would be (it's literally the same underlying tech!), which is why I don't believe that the complaints about Electron are actually of a technical nature.
@halfy What 'overhead' would that be exactly?
And how does 'less control' result in higher resource use, when basically every single resource-hungry web application I've actually profiled, was making absolutely trivial resource management errors (like keeping perpetual references) that are in no way specific to web anything?
@joepie91 Well I agree and disagree with you there :)
I was making the same point that yes, both Electron, Tauri or whatever other tech you use do suffer the same problems. They aren't causing it, but it's the obvious target to blame if you don't dig any deeper.
I disagree though, web applications come with an overhead. It's easier to write a bad web application because you have less control over your environment. You only have to take a sample of apps to see this.