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I’m a developer and I’m also using web apps or electron apps all day.

VS Code, Slack, Spotify, GitHub (for basic pre commit diff review I quite like their app), and figma are all Electron apps and are pretty good today.

So many web apps that I can’t count and many of them are passable. Still the Electron apps tend to be more polished (even their web versions).



Electron apps are great themselves. It’s when you are in a 3rd world country where all computers are old or when you are working on an underpowered machine it becomes a problem. Spawning a new browser process consumes resources like there is no tomorrow or other programs running simultaneously. This is the problem Tauri addresses.


I am so glad that Electron makes must haves for me like Signal possible.




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