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Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

95 mentions on Hacker News by 88 people: 13 stories, 82 comments · first 2019-11-19 · latest 2026-08-31

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  1. …it easy to package both AppImage and Flatpak and not run into the above libwebkit2gtk issues. [1]< https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/ad0b98a2329e369364e... > [2]This is not entirely true, you can use a docker image inside the Github…
    comment by Arrowmaster · 2026-08-31 · in Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri
  2. That’s a marketing myth. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
    comment by argee · 2026-05-30 · in It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
  3. …Also, keep in mind that Tauri itself is 14 crates, where each one shows up in your build tree. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/dev/Cargo.toml And Ratatui is 6: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/blob/main/Cargo.toml
    comment by ViewTrick1002 · 2026-05-24 · in Migrating from Go to Rust
  4. …comes to RAM! > Memory benchmark might be incorrect: Tauri might consume more RAM than Electron > https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
    comment by eviks · 2026-04-06 · in SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
  5. …MB for the same UI, with a large portion of that going towards graphics (wgpu table stakes). [0] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
    comment by truefaxxx · 2026-04-01 · in Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity
  6. …have stalled?) I'm hoping this[1] will solve my Linux hurdles. Going to try that branch out. [1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/pull/12491 And this is just desktop Linux. I used to care about Windows but stopped building for that.
    comment by moogly · 2026-03-04 · in Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
  7. …apps use it more. [1] https://tidyfox.app/ [2] https://v2.tauri.app/develop/tests/webdriver/ [3] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3716
    comment by TimFogarty · 2026-03-03 · in Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
  8. …are exploring integration with Chromium Embedded Framework: https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/14963#issuecommen... and following comments https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues?q=CEF
    comment by mtndew4brkfst · 2026-02-27 · in Hacking Tauri for Designer
  9. There is a ton of work going into a Tauri based on CEF. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/tree/feat/cef My hope is this still acts like a library that multiple Tauri instances share. That would still have the upside of Tauri's shared…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-02-19 · in Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
  10. > Lack of support for .appx and .msix bundles on Windows https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/4818 Whoa, I had no idea about that. Tauri is way less fully baked than I realized. The bug goes on to explain that Tauri apps can't have…
    comment by dfabulich · 2025-11-28 · in Electron vs. Tauri
  11. IME Tauri performance sucks on Linux so thats something worth keeping in mind if you go that route ( https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988 )
    comment by jerlendds · 2025-08-12 · in Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
  12. Ahem https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/8426
    comment by anthk · 2025-05-28 · in Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
  13. …measured correctly? This tauri issue suggests the common measurement approach might be wrong https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889 Also would be better to have specific startup time instead of "fast" (which is strange since…
    comment by eviks · 2025-04-12 · in We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App
  14. Apparently, yes, there is movement here: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions?discussions_...
    comment by xrd · 2025-04-01 · in Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
  15. For me it's https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988 Even if it has to be bundled, having the equivalent performance accross OSes is big. Tauri is definitely piquing my interest again because of this.
    comment by dqv · 2025-04-01 · in Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
  16. Here is a whole story: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/4089 tl;dr - Tauri uses platform's default implementation of a webview. On Windows it's WebView2 which reports back to MS.
    comment by 0x457 · 2025-02-25 · in Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal
  17. …even without Electron. Some frameworks use the OS bundled web renderer instead: - For Rust apps: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri - For Go apps: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-02-02 · in Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
  18. …plans to bundle CEF on Linux [2], but AFAICS this seems to be only a discussion at this point. [1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988 [2] https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064
    comment by schneegans · 2024-12-28 · in Show HN: Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop
  19. Audit report is here. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/dev/audits/Radicall...
    comment by not_a_dane · 2024-10-02 · in Tauri 2.0 Stable Release
  20. something like [tauri]( https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri )?
    comment by gnuly · 2024-09-25 · in Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
  21. …polished experience when it comes to supporting all platforms (Web, desktop, iOS, Android). [0] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by imadj · 2024-08-11 · in Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
  22. …the project didnt't work due to an colliding filename error, but I found a closed issue at their https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/10192 which pointed me towards removing `rlib` from the crate-type, which solved that issue. All in…
    comment by lostindetails · 2024-08-05 · in Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
  23. tauri-apps/tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri : > The user interface in Tauri apps currently leverages tao as a window handling library on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. To render your application, Tauri uses WRY, a…
    comment by westurner · 2024-07-10 · in Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
  24. …Tauri app just uses the system WKWebView. Memory usage can be misleading due to reporting, see e.g. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
    comment by rockdoe · 2024-03-04 · in New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
  25. This is being worked on https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/579
    comment by bouk · 2024-02-06 · in Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot
  26. That issue is four years old. Here is a discussion from last month: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/8524#discuss... . The two teams are apparently working together.
    comment by goku12 · 2024-02-06 · in Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot
  27. I thought not much: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/579
    comment by davgoldin · 2024-02-06 · in Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot
  28. …because it uses Tauri, which uses the system webview rather than bundling its own browser engine: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2023-04-19 · in Turn any webpage into a desktop app with Rust with ease
  29. Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
    comment by zhs · 2023-02-26 · in Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
  30. Yes and no, publishing to the Mac AppStore is a slightly different beast. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/4415 TBF I wouldn't bother with the Mac AppStore if there was a simple way of distributing paid versions of the desktop…
    comment by rpastuszak · 2022-12-10 · in Tauri Mobile Alpha Release
  31. Not by any means a solution to all Electron problems, but Tauri[0] is promising. 0 - https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
    comment by mritchie712 · 2022-12-05 · in Mac OS 9
  32. Tauri is meant to be good https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
    comment by groffee · 2022-10-30 · in Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a complete nightmare
  33. These days I’ve been absolutely impressed with Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri The documentation needed a little bit of work last time I looked but they’ve made so much progress in such a small amount of time. Also having Rust…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-10-02 · in Muon: GPU Based Electron on a Diet
  34. …there is something they need natively they will be in a much better situation to pick their poison. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri uses OS provided WebView https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter uses Sciter
    comment by pas · 2022-09-20 · in It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
  35. …the lowest entrypoint they will remain the dominent force, even if they're less performant. 1: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
    comment by tfsh · 2022-08-28 · in Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
  36. …performance and simplicity. Edit: Ah, Svelte is supported, just omitted from the HN title: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/dev/tooling/cli/tem...
    comment by andrew_ · 2022-08-13 · in Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue
  37. …be shipped as a single binary file with webview and react - https://github.com/snehesht/goview 1. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri 2. https://github.com/zserge/lorca 3. https://github.com/webview/webview
    comment by snehesht · 2022-08-09 · in Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?
  38. Maybe Go+Fyne or Rust+Tauri? https://fyne.io/ https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
    comment by linsomniac · 2022-07-10 · in Ask HN: Easy language/runtime to distribute to desktop users?
  39. …this discussion and their site search. :( One issue from 2019: "Tracking : accessibility (a11y)" https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/207
    comment by password4321 · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  40. …but it's impossible or too hard to do it. - https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/discussions/1452 - https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2709
    comment by wener · 2022-06-16 · in Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
  41. …this 1.0 release they ordered a full security audit for the codebase and published the report ( https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/next/audits/Radical... ). The project encouraged me to better my own workflows too, as even the…
    comment by Uninen · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  42. According to https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri they are using "Node.js for running the CLI (deno and pure rust are on the roadmap)"
    comment by m12k · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  43. …and flutter webview is also is ok if you only care about ios and android but its not enough. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
    comment by born-jre · 2022-05-11 · in W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group
  44. …in progress and a stable release in its fourth RC, it's surely very close to 'production ready'. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/releases/tag/tauri-v1.0....
    comment by OJFord · 2022-03-26 · in Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?
  45. ….NET would be my other approach for O365 based integrations. Rust has something similar to wails, https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri . Then there all the traditional native vs cross-platform methods. No approach, or cross platform…
    comment by ramoz · 2022-01-21 · in Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
  46. …frontend page from loading (hence, the white screen). The template doesn't have this issue. Tauri ( https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri ) uses less memory, but relies on a different browser so your app may be inconsistent cross-platform.
    comment by bobblywobbles · 2022-01-19 · in Thank you You helped my project grow to 1k stars
  47. According to Tauri's documentation ( https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri ) minimal app: Tauri Electron Memory Consumption Linux 180 MB 462 MB Note Tauri is full fledged Client/Server with WebView (client) running in separate process with…
    comment by c-smile · 2022-01-05 · in Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
  48. No: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2421 https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3088
    comment by EugeneOZ · 2022-01-05 · in Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
  49. Yes, but this is my point. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/3162 > FabianLars, 3 hours ago, Collaborator > ...for example my somewhat simple app uses ~120MB > But only ~5MB is the actual tauri/rust process, the rest is…
    comment by wokwokwok · 2022-01-05 · in Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
  50. …incorrect for building & installation on M1 Macs, you cannot run the app without it crashing on M1. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2421 https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2934 These things are not a big deal! Bugs…
    comment by rattlesnakedave · 2022-01-05 · in Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust