Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
bubbline@tech.lgbt ("Liana :v_trans: :v_kirb:") wrote:
also side note: A lot of UI-based desktop apps suffer from being made with Electron, which ships all of chromium into one app, meaning it's heavy and has to spin up an entire chromium.
But there are alternatives, if you look at tools like Tauri https://tauri.app which instead let you plug into the native webview of the OS your app runs on, and all the optimisations that come with it.
There's a reason Windows now uses HTML5 as the way to build desktop UI