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Personally I think they should revive Positron, their electron competitor, with the launch of Servo. If it has the same benefits of Firefox vs Chrome, I think people would love apps that are on the slimmer side
I don't see the point, especially when there's Tauri, which is a slim wrapper around whatever the default web view is on the target platform. That's about as slim as you can get.
Mozilla making it would merely be a Firefox-based Electron competitor, which would probably end up being similar in terms of size. I think that should happen, but the goal shouldn't be to make apps slimmer, but to make a real Electron competitor (i.e. something that packages the browser with the executable).
I've never heard of Tauri before. It's almost exactly what I would hope for from mozilla, and perfect for some of the apps I want to make. Ty!
You're welcome! I'm actually in the process of pitching it to my company to replace our Electron app, which has caused a bunch of problems for us.
Do you have a pros and cons between tauri and electron? Thank you
I'll just describe how they work, and you can decide the pros and cons for yourself.
Electron:
Tauri:
I want to move our app to Tauri because:
So since we don't need the features Electron offers, I want to use Tauri to reduce our maintenance overhead.