blackboardsh/electrobun
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Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript, Zig, Rust, Go, or Odin.
12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2024-04-03 · latest 2026-06-22
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…and it has support for Windows, macOS and Linux https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/comparison/ https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun#platform-support
comment by krawcu · 2026-06-22 · in Deno Desktop -
Electrobun repo: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun > Electrobun aims to be a complete solution-in-a-box for building, updating, and shipping ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop applications written in Typescript. Under…
comment by andai · 2026-05-23 · in Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite -
Speaking about Electron, for my own little tools I have been using TypeScript+Bun with Electrobun. https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun
comment by hu3 · 2026-03-22 · in Windows native app development is a mess -
Other distros than Ubuntu are out of scope[1], so not usable for me, sadly. [1]: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun/issues/4#issuecom...
comment by moogly · 2026-02-21 · in Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript -
I’m building Electrobun ( https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun ) It’s an alternative to Electron/Tauri that uses Bun. It has a bsdiff based update mechanism that lets you ship updates as small as 4KB, a custom zstd self extractor…
comment by yoav · 2025-05-25 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) -
Here's their roadmap[0], that's later down the road as well (v0.4.0). [0] https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun/issues/2
comment by prophesi · 2024-11-21 · in Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript -
It's the other way around, they only support arm at the moment: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun/issues/10#issueco...
comment by sschueller · 2024-11-21 · in Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript -
…Given that, I was curious how their workflows folder looked but, well, that answers that question: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun/tree/9ce4ed636100...
comment by mdaniel · 2024-11-21 · in Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript -
…write typescript for the main and browser contexts. Under the hood it’s powered by bun and zig. https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun Still a ways to go (I’m currently porting a large app from electron to electrobun and filling in the…
comment by yoav · 2024-05-02 · in Ask HN: Best stack for building a desktop app? -
…it align well with how I think. Can’t wait to update to 0.12.0 when I’m back at my laptop. [1] https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun
comment by yoav · 2024-04-20 · in Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes -
…but might want to check out electrobun. It’s like tauri, but instead of rust you write typescript. https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun
comment by yoav · 2024-04-03 · in Ask HN: How to choose the desktop platform and tech for desktop app development?